tears Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

43 tears Quotes
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“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: The Conquest of Grenada (pt. II, act III, sc. 1)
“Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.”
John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Queen of Corinth (act IV, sc. 1), not in original folio, said to be spurious
“The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Eton College (st. 5)
“Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Progress of Poesy (III, 1, l. 12)
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Sonnet--On the Death of Mr. West
“Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.”
Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte) Quotes
Source: Lost Galleon
“Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. XIX, l. 319), (Pope's translation)
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.”
Charles Dickens Quotes
“Tears are the summer showers to the soul.”
Alfred Austin Quotes
“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
John Vance Cheney Quotes
“If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.”
Horace Quotes
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”
Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
“Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.”
Marguerite De Valois Quotes
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
St Theresa of Jesus Quotes
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Euripides Quotes
“Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.”
Seneca Quotes
“There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.”
C S Robinson Quotes