Tears are a universal language, transcending cultural and linguistic barriers to reveal the depths of human emotion. Whether they are born from joy, sorrow, or sheer exhaustion, tears capture moments that words alone often cannot. In the tapestry of life's experiences, they weave threads of vulnerability and strength, acting as both a release and a testament to our shared humanity. Within this carefully curated collection of 136 quotes about tears, you'll find insights and reflections that resonate with your own experiences. Let's explore how the simple act of shedding tears connects us all, offering solace and understanding in moments that demand more than mere words.
1. “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” - Samuel Beckett
2. “That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.” - Khaled Hosseini
3. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” - Charles Dickens
4. “I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. ” - Philip Levine
5. “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. ” - Colette
6. “My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.” - Anne Giardini
7. “And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.” - J.K. Rowling
8. “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” - Lemony Snicket
9. “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.” - Nikolai Gogol
10. “Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!” - Natsuki Takaya
11. “What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or hurt? I tell her what I know or think I know: that the body does not distinguish between emotional and physical pain; the muscles around the lachrymal glands receive a message from the brain, then tighten and squeeze out tears. Tears contain high levels of the hormone ACTH and prolactin, endorphins (which we know are mood-altering and pain-killing), as well as thirty times more manganese than is found in blood, suggesting that human tears can concentrate and remove harmful substances from the body. Prolactin in humans controls fluid balance; by the age of eighteen women have 60 percent more prolactin than men, which may explain why women seem to cry more often. I tell her that sadness--like happiness--is an intense feeling of being alive, of having essence. I try to explain to her my own nonscientific theory: that crying is about weight or heft, that we cry when our bodies feel too light or too heavy to bear or hold on to language.” - Liza Wieland
12. “Laugh now, cry later.” - Erma Bombeck
13. “My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.” - Jack Kerouac
14. “There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.” - Shannon Hale
15. “What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness” - David Wilkerson
16. “Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.” - Homer
17. “To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.” - Anne McCaffrey
18. “I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.” - Paulo Coelho
19. “C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20. “And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.” - Erich Segal
21. “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” - Brian Jacques
22. “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” - Lauren Conrad
23. “And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
24. “I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.” - C.S. Lewis
25. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” - Steve Maraboli
26. “The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.” - William Goldman
27. “Єсть на світі доля, А хто її знає? Єсть на світі воля, А хто її має? Єсть люде на світі — Сріблом-злотом сяють, Здається, панують, А долі не знають,— Ні долі, ні волі! З нудьгою та з горем Жупан надівають, А плакати — сором. Возьміть срібло-злото Та будьте багаті, А я візьму сльози — Лихо виливати; Затоплю недолю Дрібними сльозами, Затопчу неволю Босими ногами! Тоді я веселий, Тоді я багатий, Як буде серденько По волі гуляти!” - Taras Shevchenko
28. “tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?” - Sorin Cerin
29. “An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.” - Judith McNaught
30. “But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.” - Judith McNaught
31. “Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.” - Anne Brontë
32. “It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.” - Alexander Lowen
33. “Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.” - Mary Balogh
34. “The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.” - Lemony Snicket
35. “These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.” - Wilfred Owen
36. “Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.” - Lisa Kleypas
37. “Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.” - Charles Darwin
38. “So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?” - Charlotte Brontë
39. “And down I went to fetch my bride:But, Alice, you were ill at ease;This dress and that by turns you tried,Too fearful that you should not please.I loved you better for your fears,I knew you could not look but well;And dews, that would have fall'n in tears,I kiss'd away before they fell.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
40. “How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears” - Ahlam Mosteghanemi
41. “When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears!” - Toba Beta
42. “If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.” - Robert Liparulo
43. “Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.” - Haruki Murakami
44. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” - Santosh Kalwar
45. “Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.” - Charles Dickens
46. “Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze, But that this folly doubts it.” - William Shakespeare
47. “The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.” - Teresa R. Funke
48. “But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.” - Lisa Kleypas
49. “Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.” - Kendare Blake
50. “Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.” - Jerry Bridges
51. “Será que uma lágrima podia simbolizar a vida de um humano? De um ser? Nascer, percorrer o seu caminho, fazer as suas escolhas de vida, tomar desvios ou atalhos, para depois, chegar à ravina onde tudo acabava. Frágil ao ponto de qualquer coisa a puder impedir de continuar caminho, um obstáculo que põe fim a tudo. Seria assim a vida, tal como uma lágrima?” - Diana Franco de Sousa
52. “Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel” - Jeremy Aldana
53. “If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?” - Tyra Lynn
54. “If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes.” - Ann Marie Aguilar
55. “Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.” - Jean Rhys
56. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” - Steve Maraboli
57. “The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears.” - George R.R. Martin
58. “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” - Hans Christian Andersen
59. “I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.” - David Rakoff
60. “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.” - Criss Jami
61. “The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.” - John Stott
62. “You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.” - Janice Galloway
63. “And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.” - Jane Austen
64. “Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea” - J.R.R. Tolkien
65. “I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.” - Hollywood Undead
66. “Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.” - Pete Hamill
67. “The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears” - Pop Samuel
68. “Truth about tears is that , most tears are the result of a delusion” - Pop Samuel
69. “Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’” - Kristin Hannah
70. “The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.” - A. Kamalei
71. “Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.” - Susanna Tamaro
72. “It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start” - Ron Rash
73. “Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.” - Rebecca Barlow Jordan
74. “If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?"Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?""Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else.""No."I swallowed and blinked back tears."I'd go after you," he said.” - Kelly Parra
75. “…have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse, the waves, and a metabolism, the food chain. A personality, a character, a consciousness, and a sense of purpose…try this- turn into spray, spin rainbows…wear down entire mountains and dump them in layers…gently surround marina sea grass twice a day, protecting and feeding thousands of crabs, ducks, and geese…fill human eyes with warm salt brine at least once a month… Becoming Water” - Susan Zwinger
76. “The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.” - Hannah Hurnard
77. “Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.” - Veronica Roth
78. “It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
79. “There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.” - Paige Harbison
80. “Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there — tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.” - Deborah Wheeler
81. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.” - Walt Disney Company
82. “...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.” - N.K. Jemisin
83. “Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?” - Anne Brontë
84. “He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.” - Pete Wentz
85. “Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!” - Deeba Salim Irfan
86. “I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.” - Sherman Alexie
87. “I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.” - Nadège Richards
88. “Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.” - Muriel Barbery
89. “The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn't exist anymore.” - Antonia Michaelis
90. “Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .” - Albert Smith
91. “I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.” - Emma Cameron
92. “...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...” - John Geddes
93. “He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again toleave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.Very much on the verge of tears.And very frightened.” - Mary Balogh
94. “When the heart is dry the eye is dry.” - Victor Hugo
95. “As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.” - Paulo Coelho
96. “A tear rolled down my cheekAnd more came downUntil tears rolled down like a stream.My eyes were blind with tears for you.They washed my eyes till I could see.” - Calvin O'John
97. “I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I’d ever thought or felt or been.” - Judith Tarr
98. “Dan didn’t want to say anything, but the words were unstoppable. “I fucking love you. Don’t leave me. You’ve got to find me.” Again, fucking tears. Vadim shook his head, then pressed his face into the crook of Dan’s shoulder, hoped to hide his weakness and felt like a man condemned to die. “I will... find you. If it’s the last thing I’ll do, I’ll come back. Nothing will stop me.” - Aleksandr Voinov
99. “He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.” - Amy Lane
100. “No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.” - Anthony Liccione
101. “I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.” - Haruki Murakami
102. “Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.” - Haruki Murakami
103. “All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.” - Margaret Mitchell
104. “There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability.” - Keary Taylor
105. “He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her.” - Phillip W. Simpson
106. “He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.” - Phillip W. Simpson
107. “But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected."I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne” - L.M. Montgomery
108. “There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered. I say nay. For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected. There are things done that cannot be undone.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
109. “Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.” - Amy Waldman
110. “It was easy to conjure him up this morning, when everything was quiet and still. A little, ginger-bearded man; she had been taller than him by half a head. She had never felt the slightest physical attraction towards him. 'What was love, after all?' thought Parminder, as a gentle breeze ruffled the tall hedge of leyland cypresses that enclosed the Jawandas’ bigback lawn. Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?'I did love laughing', thought Parminder. 'I really miss laughing.'And it was the memory of laughter that, at last, made the tears flow from her eyes. They trickled down her nose and into her coffee, where they made little bulletholes, swiftly erased. She was crying because she never seemed to laugh anymore (...).” - J.K. Rowling
111. “When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.” - John D. MacDonald
112. “...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...” - John Geddes
113. “...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” - John Geddes
114. “Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.” - jay woodman
115. “I still want to feel you against me.” Her gaze dropped to his hands. “I want you to stay with me. Hold me. Just tonight. If I lose you again tomorrow then it will still be worth it. I will lose you a hundred times, if you would but hold me in your arms each time before my loss.” She saw his eyes water, but no tears emerged...” - B.C. Morin
116. “Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their father weep” - W.S. Gilbert
117. “...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...” - John Geddes
118. “The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry” - Jacuzzi Splot - Baccano
119. “He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.” - Norton Juster
120. “I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!" "Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
121. “If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.” - Taylor Swift
122. “Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
123. “These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When we deny and forget the sweet love that tears are made of. When we let sorrow turn to anger. When people cry for each other, it is a good thing. Always remember that you are a human being, connected to all other human beings. When you cry for others you are opening your heart to God, who must see what we do and weep for us, too, for the suffering we cause to one another and to ourselves.” - Nafisa Haji
124. “Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.” - Reiko Saibara
125. “I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.” - Maryrose Wood
126. “A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.” - احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou
127. “I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?” - Louise Erdrich
128. “When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.” - Steve Maraboli
129. “With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all -- Jacob would have thought of me -- who had held him, my own baby, looked down into his eyes -- and he would have understood I loved him, no matter what, to the very end -- as he saw the concrete wall flying forward to meet him.” - William Landay
130. “Tears flood in youyour eyes burningyour heart scars with my name scratched deepMy face is gonemy heart betrayed by your lullabiesI’m a shadow of a girl insideHands are touching younothing takes the place of youHeart wrench, weeps goodbyeLullabies, beautiful and trustingBarely breathing as they break into dustLonely corners meSweeps me off my feetShows me it was better for meFingertips holding closeyour grip not as softFollows me to an empty bedI can’t stop the weakening of my soulmy body is dyingyour tune is holding my mindLet me gosee what I doNo controlNo youYou whisper your sweet goodbyeIf it is small it won’t interrupt my sleepBut my heart you keepYou say it’s for meBut who would be happy?Alone left out in the cold” - Mercy Cortez (LiveForeverAnon)
131. “And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made out of glass, with the hardness of his expression slowly dissolving into tentative uncertainty. "You are not really dying," he said, the oddest tone to his voice, "are you?"Jem nodded. "So they tell me.""I am sorry," Will said."No", Jem said softly. He drew his jacket aside and took a knife from the belt at his waist. "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry. Say you'll train with me."He held the knife to Will, hilt first. Charlotte held her breath, afraid to move. She felt as if she were watching something very important happen, though she could not have said what.Will reached out and took the knife, his eyes never leaving Jem's face. His fingers brushed the other boy's as he took the weapon from him. It was the first time, Charlotte thought that she had ever seen him touch any other person willingly."I'll train with you," he said.” - Cassandra Clare
132. “Πάει κιόλας πολύς καιρός που περιμένω την ώρα και την στιγμή να γράψω για κάποια δάκρυα της παιδικής μου ζωής, που, ενώ κανείς δεν μου τα δίδαξε, μου δίδαξαν εκείνα κάτι.” - Ζυράννα Ζατέλη
133. “I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.” - Betsy Byars
134. “Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.” - Dennis E. Adonis
135. “I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.” - Steve Maraboli
136. “But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.” - Margaret Atwood
