“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”
“Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.”
“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its 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.”