“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan
“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
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham
“His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth”
William Shakespeare