Tears Quotes

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

Washington Irving

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

José N. Harris

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

Victor Hugo

"Tears are words that need to be written."

Paulo Coelho

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

Christopher Morley

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Is there a bolt that can shut in love? The trickling tears of the loving will proclaim it."

Thiruvalluvar

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

John Vance Cheney

"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."

Alfred Austin

"The tears of the earth keep her smiles in bloom."

"Let your tears come. Let them water your soul."

Eileen Mayhew

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it."

Albert Smith

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Tears at times have all the weight of speech."

Ovid

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

Charles Dickens

"I am a cloud of sorrow, filled with tears."

Mahadevi Varma

"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."

Dionne Warwick

"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

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”

Washington Irving