Tears Quotes

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.