Shedding Tears Quotes

• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

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  Stendhal

  Character   Men   Tears  

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

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• Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.

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  Haruki Murakami

  Girl   Real   Heart  

  1855

• There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

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  Shaqiq al-Balkhi

  Wisdom   Regret   Islamic  

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

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  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death   Stars   Writing  

  1370

• Tears are words the heart can't express

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  Gerard Way

  Sad   Heart   Sorrow  

  4684

• When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

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  Kate Tempest

  Shadow   Tears   Devil  

  3665

• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading   Book   Writing  

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

  2934

• Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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  Heinrich Heine

  Blow   Tears   May  

  "The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 60, 1987.

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• Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

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  George Mikes

  Funny   Humorous   Israel  

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• Tears are the silent language of grief.

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  Voltaire

  Sympathy   Grief   Condolences  

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4431, e-artnow

  1669

• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

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  Billy Graham

  Strength   Christian   Self  

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

  2448

• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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  William Shakespeare

  Love   Strength   Tears  

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [174]

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