Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

Nnedi Okorafor

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

Mitch Albom

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

Mike Tyson

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

Michael Ondaatje

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Leigh Hunt

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Ovid

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Johanna Lindsey

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

I'm kind of speechless, you know. I wanted to cry. They were tears of joy.

Chris Denorfia

It's always tough. I'll go down and play and try to tear it up there.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Franz Kafka

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Clarence Clemons

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

Once we tear down Wooddale Park, there will be no more Wooddale Park.

Jessica Simpson

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

Francesca Lia Block

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

George McGovern

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

Judith Guest

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

Robert Burns

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

Richard Hell

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

Raymond Carver

But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.

Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

James Russell Lowell

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Laura Esquivel

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

Libba Bray

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

John Clare

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

Max Beckmann

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Marilynne Robinson

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

Khalil Gibran

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Khalil Gibran

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Only humans can cry tears.

Emilie Autumn

Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.