-
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
-
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Author:
Loretta Young
-
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Author:
William Wordsworth
-
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.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
-
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Author:
Laura Wilder
-
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Author:
Kim Wilde
-
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
-
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
Author:
Ryan White
-
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Author:
Edith Wharton
-
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Author:
Rebecca West
-
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
Author:
Zach Wamp
-
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
Author:
Sid Waddell
-
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
-
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Author:
Voltaire
-
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
Author:
Paul Verlaine
-
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Author:
Giuseppe Verdi
-
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Author:
Steven Tyler
-
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
Author:
Cyril Tourneur
-
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Author:
James Thurber
-
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
Author:
William Thackeray
-
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Author:
Saint Teresa
-
Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.
Author:
Rip Taylor
-
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
-
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.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
-
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.
Author:
Cat Stevens
-
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Author:
Sophocles
-
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
Author:
William Simms
-
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Author:
Charles Simeon
-
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
Author:
Martin Short
-
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Author:
Karl Shapiro
-
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Author:
William Shakespeare
-
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
Author:
John Sexton
-
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
Author:
Mary Schmich
-
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Author:
Sallust
-
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
-
Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
Author:
Andy Richter
-
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
-
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
-
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Author:
Lizette Reese
-
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
-
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Author:
Edith Piaf
-
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
Author:
Petrarch
-
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Author:
Charles Peguy
-
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
Author:
Robert Pattinson
-
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
-
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Author:
Ovid
-
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Author:
Thomas Otway
-
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
-
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.
Author:
Barack Obama
-
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
-
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Author:
Alfred Musset
-
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Author:
Thomas Moore
-
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
-
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Author:
Octave Mirbeau
-
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Author:
Bette Midler
-
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
Author:
Ethel Merman
-
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
Author:
Reba McEntire
-
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Author:
Gabriel Marquez
-
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.
Author:
Horace Mann
-
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Author:
Maurice Maeterlinck
-
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Author:
Frank Luntz
-
Pearls mean tears.
Author:
Doris Lessing
-
We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
Author:
John Lasseter
-
And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
Author:
Christine Lahti
-
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
Author:
Chiaki Kuriyama
-
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Author:
Louis Kronenberger
-
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Author:
Juvenal
-
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Author:
Jesse Jackson
-
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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Author:
Washington Irving
-
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Author:
Leigh Hunt
-
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
-
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Author:
Bob Hope
-
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
-
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Author:
Robert Herrick
-
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Author:
Billy Graham
-
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.
Author:
Arthur Golden
-
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Author:
Judy Garland
-
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
-
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Author:
Robert Frost
-
They'll take everything, even your tears.
Author:
George Foreman
-
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
-
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
Author:
Shelley Fabares
-
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
Author:
Linda Evans
-
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.
Author:
Clarissa Estes
-
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
Author:
Dennis Eckersley
-
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?
Author:
Kirsten Dunst
-
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Author:
Alfred Douglas
-
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
-
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Author:
Isak Dinesen
-
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Author:
Marlene Dietrich
-
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Author:
Denis Diderot
-
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.
Author:
Jackie DeShannon
-
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Author:
Bette Davis
-
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
Author:
John Davidson
-
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Author:
Rene Daumal
-
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.
Author:
John Cleveland
-
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Author:
Winston Churchill
-
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
Author:
Jung Chang
-
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Author:
Albert Camus
-
The busy have no time for tears.
Author:
Lord Byron
-
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
Author:
Billie Burke
-
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
Author:
Georg Buchner
-
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
-
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Author:
Anne Bronte
-
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Author:
Jimmy Breslin
-
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Author:
Francis Braceland
-
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Author:
Christian Bovee
-
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.
Author:
Jo Bonner
-
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Author:
Ingrid Bergman
-
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Author:
Candice Bergen
-
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
-
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Author:
Henry Beecher
-
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Author:
Max Beckmann
-
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.
Author:
Samuel Beckett
-
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Author:
Amelia Barr
-
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Author:
Natalie Barney
-
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.
Author:
George Baker
-
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Author:
Randy Bachman
-
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Author:
Burt Bacharach
-
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Author:
Saint Avila
-
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Author:
Alfred Austin
-
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Author:
Saint Augustine
-
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Author:
Henri Amiel
-
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
Author:
Richard Allen
-
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
-
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Author:
Alfred Adler
