Famous Quotes & Sayings

Truman Capote

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Philip Levine

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Paulo Coelho

Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry

Victor Hugo

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

Veronica Roth

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

Thomas Paine

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Raymond E. Feist

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Richard Gere

I cry every chance I get.

Robert Southwell

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.

William Blake

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

William Cowper

When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

William Cowper

And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

Wilfred Owen

Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Raymond Williams

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Victoria Woodhull

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

Georgette Heyer

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

Jill Clayburgh

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Jean Ingelow

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...

Jim Carrey

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

Jennifer Tilly

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

Jennifer Garner

Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.

Georges Bataille

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

Gerald Massey

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

Iain Banks

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

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.

The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.