Tears Quotes

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Pearls mean tears.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.