Tears Falling Quotes

• It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

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  Stevie Smith

  Fall   Water   Hatred  

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

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  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fall   Fire   Heaven  

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• Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

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  William Shakespeare

  Fall   Eye   Tears  

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

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  James Russell Lowell

  Fall   Simple   Tears  

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

  1995

• ... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,” he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands. Emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. “I'll never see you again, will I?” He shook his head. “Not in this lifetime,” he said hoarsely. She pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. He felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. “Then I'll wait a hundred years,” she whispered. “Or a thousand, if I must. Remember that, Nikki. I'll be waiting for you to come to me.

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  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall   Bye   Hands  

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• The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

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  Henry Maudsley

  Inspirational   Sad   Grief  

  Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”

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• A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

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  Garth Nix

  Fall   Tears   Faces  

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.160, Hot Key Books

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• Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

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  Kami Garcia

  Fall   Moon   Years  

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Sixteen Moons - Eine unsterbliche Liebe”, p.398, cbj Verlag

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• The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

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  Hiro Mashima

  Heartbroken   Pain   Fall  

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