93 Tears Song Inspiring Quotes

Delving into the profound world of music, few songs capture raw emotion and vulnerability quite like "96 Tears" by Question Mark & the Mysterians. This classic hit, with its infectious organ riff and timeless melody, has resonated with listeners for decades, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of rock and roll. Through its evocative lyrics and haunting sound, it has inspired countless artists and fans alike. In this post, we gather a curated collection of the most inspiring quotes that draw from the essence of "96 Tears." Join us as we explore how this iconic track continues to influence and resonate within the hearts of its audience, offering both solace and inspiration along the way.

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

2. “I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. ” - Philip Levine

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. “My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.” - Anne Giardini

5. “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

6. “Here is to the nights we felt alive, here is to the tears you knew youd cry, here is to good bye, tomorrow is going to come to soon.” - Eve 6

7. “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

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

9. “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

10. “Laugh now, cry later.” - Erma Bombeck

11. “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

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

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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?” - Sorin Cerin

18. “Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.” - Judith McNaught

19. “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

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

21. “Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.” - Robert Herrick

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

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

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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

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. “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

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

32. “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

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

34. “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

35. “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” - Hans Christian Andersen

36. “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

37. “The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.” - John Stott

38. “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

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. “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

41. “The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears” - Pop Samuel

42. “Truth about tears is that , most tears are the result of a delusion” - Pop Samuel

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

44. “Aura," he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'dfeel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.” - Jeri Smith-Ready

45. “It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start” - Ron Rash

46. “Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.” - Rebecca Barlow Jordan

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

48. “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

49. “…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

50. “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

51. “It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

52. “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

53. “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

54. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.” - Walt Disney Company

55. “...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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “Lonesome tearsI can't cry them anymoreI can't think of what they're forOh they ruin me every timeBut I'll try to leave behind some daysThese tears just can't eraseI don't need them anymoreHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feelLazy sun your eyes catch the lightWith the promises that mightCome true for awhileOh I'll ride farther than I shouldHarder than I couldJust to meet you thereHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feel” - Beck Hansen

60. “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

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

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

63. “Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .” - Albert Smith

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

65. “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

66. “I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.” - Tina Smith

67. “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

68. “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

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

70. “He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.” - Amy Lane

71. “Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.” - J.K. Rowling

72. “My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies” - Munia Khan

73. “I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.” - Haruki Murakami

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.” - Amy Waldman

79. “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

80. “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

81. “Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It's the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes. I wipe a few tears from mine. Tears don't pile, though. They grip and cling and slide in salty trails that I taste until the edge of the city.” - Cath Crowley

82. “...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...” - John Geddes

83. “...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

84. “He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.” - Norton Juster

85. “Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.” - Amy Neftzger

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

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

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

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

92. “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

93. “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