85 Tears Quotes

Tears are a universal human experience, marking moments of profound sorrow, joy, and everything in between. They are not just droplets of emotion but powerful expressions that words often fail to convey. In literature, film, and everyday conversation, quotes about tears offer deep insights and resonate with our innermost feelings. In this blog post, we have curated a collection of the top 85 tears quotes that capture the essence of these poignant moments. Each quote serves as a reminder of our shared human experience, offering solace, understanding, and connection. So, delve in and explore the profound beauty and complexity behind every tear.

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. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” - Charles Dickens

3. “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

4. “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

5. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” - Edgar Allan Poe

6. “The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.” - Samuel Beckett

7. “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

8. “I'm with you in Rocklandin my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.” - Allen Ginsberg

9. “Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!” - Natsuki Takaya

10. “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

11. “I wanted to feel like I could open my mouth and fill it with Pepper's flesh, close my teeth on her skin and tear it away, making blood pump like a fountain over everything - rug, clothes, hair, face - both Violet and I stopped in midair. Pepper's eyes had flooded with tears. It was too easy, she was enjoying this. Her body softened like a sponge waiting to soak up my punches. Her lips smiled the same way Valerie's did. It was as if I had discovered maggots in her flesh. I recoiled from her where she lay on the bed like a piece of rotting meat. ” - Mary Woronov

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.” - Mahogany SilverRain

17. “And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.” - Erich Segal

18. “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

19. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.” - Santosh Kalwar

21. “The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.” - Lemony Snicket

22. “Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.” - Murasaki Shikibu

23. “These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.” - Wilfred Owen

24. “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

25. “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

26. “When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears!” - Toba Beta

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.” - Jerry Bridges

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” - Steve Maraboli

35. “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.” - Kouta Hirano

36. “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

37. “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

38. “To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation.” - C.E. Murphy

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.” - A. Kamalei

43. “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

44. “Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.” - Joshua Wisenbaker

45. “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

46. “If I were standing right beside her, I probably would have heard her heart breaking. It would have sounded like the cracking of a wooden bat connecting with a baseball. No, that was too clean of a break. It would have sounded like rain from a powerful thunderstorm pounding on a tin roof. Millions of drops relentlessly pounding away on the surface until it shattered into billions of tiny pieces. Pieces Emily couldn’t put back together by herself.” - Lindsay Paige

47. “…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

48. “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

49. “...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

50. “Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.” - Sahana Epari

51. “...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...” - John Geddes

52. “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

53. “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.” - Anthony Liccione

54. “I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.” - Nadège Richards

55. “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

56. “Tada verkė tik mano akys, šiandien pravirko mano siela.” - Reşat Nuri Güntekin

57. “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

58. “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

59. “Reward theory. Some people just aren't worth your tears.” - Janelle Carreon

60. “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

61. “But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.” - Kakuzo Okakura

62. “No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.” - Anthony Liccione

63. “Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that's always a sign that he has lost hope,out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose...” - Sherif A. El-Mawardy

64. “All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.” - Margaret Mitchell

65. “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

66. “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

67. “All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for.” - Cynthia Wright

68. “When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.” - John D. MacDonald

69. “...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” - John Geddes

70. “Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.” - jay woodman

71. “...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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.” - Taylor Swift

75. “. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.” - Courtney Giardina

76. “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

77. “A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.” - احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

78. “I know the answer to improving Jess's condition doesn't lay in tears the answer is in sweat.” - John Passaro

79. “I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?” - Louise Erdrich

80. “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)

81. “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

82. “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

83. “I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.” - Steve Maraboli

84. “I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.” - Susan Abulhawa

85. “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