“Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.”
Paul Verlaine
“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
“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.
“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
“Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.”
Albert Smith
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.”
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