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Quotes about Tears

'Can you keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.

'That's the way it's done,' the Queen said with great decision:  'nobody can do two things at once, you know.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren't alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

Vikram Seth
Source: http://zunibluesky.stumbleupon.com/
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens : English novelist
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
 
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Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith
 
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The wost part is not crying. The worst part is wanting to cry but not being able to.

Leah Matchett
 
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Source: Waiting for Godot
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
 
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"Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in
different directions."

Virginia Casey
Source: My diary
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The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Native American Proverb
 
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Master

Don't ask my master for a quick fix,
there are no band aids for these wounds,
Instead he will give your heart a check up for free,
And tell you why it shuts down ,
when it should be singing for joy.

Don't ask my master to shed a tear for you,
Infact his eyes may even seem to playfully mock you,
'Cause his heart is already bleeding ,
for the unncessary load of pain that you carry.

Don't ask my master to bless you,
He has no time for it,
And in any case his hands are busy,
going up in gratitude on your behalf.

vikram : mystictraveler
vikram oberoi
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We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”

Gregory David Roberts : Gaia Child
Gregory Roberts
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
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Love is the great insulator from every ill which can attack the body. Love is the great balance wheel or spiritual gyroscope which makes it impossible for one to injure his own body by emotions which poison his body.
Every emotion of any nature which is not based upon Love poisons the body and tears every nerve to the extent of the variance of that emotion from the balance which Love alone insulates one from.
He whose emotions are based upon Love commands the light-waves which compose his body. The most virulent pestilence could not touch one who is thus insulated by Love. He who eliminates Love from his thinking, and its consequent emotion, is slave to his body and exposes it to toxic dangers in the measure of his unbalance, and his mind to the ravages of unbalance which lead to insanity.
The principle which governs such variations is electric balance between both opposite pulsations of the heartbeat and their fulcrum from which they spring. All mental and physical illnesses arise from unbalance between these pulsations.

Walter Russell : Gaia Explorer
Walter Russell
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When my father died, I moved into the space he left inside me and found out it was where I belonged.

Farland : almost human
Farland Fish
 
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Dancing in our heads...


We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.


-- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Source: Albert Einstein
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In the name of love, how many tears are shed? In the name of love how much pain is caused? In the name of love, how many violent crimes? In the name of love, how much love is lost?

Mr. Prophet
Source: Song: In The Name of Love By Mr. Prophet
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The man who lives in his religious centre of personal energy, and is actuated by spiritual enthusiasms, differs from his previous carnal self in perfectly definite ways.

The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower "noes" which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature. Magnanimities once impossible are now easy; paltry conventionalities and mean incentives once tyrannical hold no sway. The stone wall inside of him has fallen, the hardness in his heart has broken down. The rest of us can, I think, imagine this by recalling our state of feeling in those temporary "melting moods" into which either the trials of real life, or the theatre, or a novel sometimes throws us. Especially if we weep! For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open to every nobler leading. With most of us the customary hardness quickly returns, but not so with saintly persons. Many saints, even as energetic ones as Teresa and Loyola, have possessed what the church traditionally reveres as a special grace, the so-called gift of tears. In these persons the melting mood seems to have held almost uninterrupted control. And as it is with tears and melting moods, so it is with other exalted affections. Their reign may come by gradual growth or by a crisis; but in either case it may have "come to stay."

William James : American philosopher & psychologist
William James (1842 - 1910)
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis, Page: 204..205
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The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen
 
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Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
 
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When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Source: Letters from a Stoic
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Recipe for greatness - To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939)
 
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Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1997)
Source: 1994
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: First Statement as Prime Minister, House of Commons, May 13, 1940
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Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Laodamia.
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A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: She was a Phantom of Delight.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: The Fountain.
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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Peter Bell. Prologue, Stanza 27.
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: The Sparrow's Nest.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11.
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April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.

William Watson (1858 - 1935)
Source: Song
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BRUTUS: Be patient till the last. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: - Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition. Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: Julius Cæsar, Act 3, scene 2.
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