(912 quotes found)
“Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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.”
Cat Stevens
“Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears”
Publilius Syrus
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
“When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
William Blake
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Tears such as angels weep.”
John Milton
“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
