“Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.”
“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“So John took out of his pocket A knife both long and sharp, And stuck it through his brother's heart, And the blood came pouring down. Says John to William, "Take off thy shirt, And tear it from gore to gore, And wrap it round your bleeding heart, And the blood will pour no more.”
“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”