Pearls mean tears. [ Lessing ]
Hence these tears. [ Virgil ]
Sad, unhelpful tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like Niobe, all tears. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Tears such as angels weep. [ Milton ]
Tears soothe suffering eyes. [ Richter ]
Her tears her only eloquence. [ Rogers ]
Remorse weeps tears of blood. [ Coleridge ]
Pity's tears are spontaneous. [ Anna Cora Mowatt ]
O we fell out, I know not why.
And kiss'd again with tears. [ Tennyson ]
Tears are due to human misery. [ Virgil ]
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. [ Bovee ]
Humor is the mistress of tears. [ Thackeray ]
Tears are the strength of women. [ Saint-Evremond ]
There is a sadness in sweet sound
That quickens tears. [ T. B. Aldrich ]
I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]
In rising sighs and falling tears. [ Addison ]
There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner over the humblest grave. [ Byron ]
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye.
Love half regrets to kiss it dry. [ Byron ]
The life of poets - love and tears. [ Mme. Desbordes-Valmore ]
My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]
Joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
Benign restorer of the soul!
Who ever fly'st to bring relief.
When first we feel the sure control,
Of love or pity, joy or grief. [ Rogers ]
My eyes are dim with childish tears. [ Wordsworth ]
Venus smiles not in a house of tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Words that weep and tears that speak. [ Abraham Cowley ]
I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nature's tears are Reason's merriment. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Tears are the silent language of grief. [ Voltaire ]
None have lived without shedding tears. [ Voltaire ]
Tears are the noble language of the eye. [ Robert Herrick ]
Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee. [ Byron ]
Tears are sometimes as weighty as words. [ Ovid ]
O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear! [ William Shakespeare ]
Too young for woe, though not for tears. [ Washington Irving ]
Without the meed of some melodious tear. [ Milton ]
See, see what showers arise,
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. [ William Shakespeare ]
The sweets of love are washed with tears. [ George Herbert ]
Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]
Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. [ Carlyle, on his Wife ]
Sometimes tears have the weight of words. [ Ovid ]
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. [ Bible ]
Resignation - a virgin with golden tears. [ Ch. Monselet ]
Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. [ Scott ]
Nothing dries sooner than a woman's tears. [ Proverb ]
Those tender tears that humanize the soul. [ Thomson ]
Her tears, like drops of molten lead,
With torment burn the passage to my heart. [ Young ]
And wet his grave with my repentant tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Tears may be dried up, but the heart never. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]
Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. [ Dryden ]
Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. [ Philemon ]
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently. [ Keats ]
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. [ William Shakespeare ]
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherished thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears. [ Mrs. David Porter ]
Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
The settled shadow of an inward strife,
And an unquiet drooping of the eye.
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. [ Byron ]
The tears that stood considering in her eyes. [ Dryden ]
A stoic of the woods, - a man without a tear. [ Campbell ]
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. [ Thomas Paine ]
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. [ H. W. Shaw ]
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. [ Wordsworth ]
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. [ Wordsworth ]
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tears of penitents are the wine of angels. [ St. Bernard ]
No tears dim the sweet look that Nature wears. [ Longfellow ]
Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being. [ Byron ]
Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. [ Bailey ]
The dews of the evening most carefully shun,
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. [ Chesterfield ]
The rose is fairest when it is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes
The eyes see better for being washed with them. [ Bovee ]
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]
Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light [ Coleridge ]
The graceful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]
Her words but wind, and all her tears but water. [ Spenser ]
Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]
Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys here after. [ Robert Herrick ]
Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers
Sprang up a sweet nativity of flowers. [ Herrick ]
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem. [ Marc Andre ]
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. [ W. R. Alger ]
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]
Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining. [ William Shakespeare ]
O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. [ Bailey ]
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain. [ William Shakespeare ]
Women have tears of dissimulation, as well as sorrow. [ Proverb ]
His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. [ Virgil ]
Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest. [ Pliny ]
Tears are the deluge of sin and the world's sacrifice. [ Gregory Nazianzen ]
To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. [ Virgil ]
Let us weep in our darkness - but weep not for him!
Not for him - who, departing, leaves millions in tears!
Not for him - who has died full of honor and years!
Not for him - who ascended Fame's ladder so high.
From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky. [ N. P. Willis ]
The daisies' eyes are a-twinkle with happy tears of dew. [ Fitz-Hugh Ludlow ]
The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. [ Italian Proverb ]
Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]
Who of us has not shed tears over the tomb of a loved one! [ Chateaubriand ]
The starlight dews, all silently their tears of love distil. [ Byron ]
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. [ Pascal ]
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! [ Jane Porter ]
Love's plant must be watered with tears and tended with care. [ Danish Proverb ]
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]
Tears are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. [ Virgil ]
Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are pierced by sunbeams. [ H. Ballou ]
O, let not woman's weapons, waterdrops, stain my man's cheeks! [ William Shakespeare ]
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. [ Matthew Henry ]
Dewdrops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve. [ Coleridge ]
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. [ Proverb ]
There is something so moving in the very image of weeping beauty. [ Steele ]
Believe these tears, which from my wounded heart bleed at my eyes. [ Dryden ]
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. [ Joseph Roux ]
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. [ Joseph Roux ]
Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay. [ Shakespeare ]
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. [ L. B. Landon ]
Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers. [ Duncan ]
Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored. [ Jean Paul ]
We often shed tears which deceive ourselves after having deceived others. [ Rochefoucauld ]
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. [ Lamartine ]
The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on. (Tears) [ Albert Smith ]
God created in our misery the kisses of children for the tears of mothers. [ E. Legouve ]
Sorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that fertilize this world. [ Jean Ingelow ]
God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown. [ William Shakespeare ]
Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]
Let me wipe off this honorable dew, that silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tears of a whore, and the oaths of a bully, may be put in the same bottle. [ Proverb ]
O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. [ Richter ]
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. [ Massey ]
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. [ Lacretelle ]
The remembrance of the tears I have shed is the only good left me in the world. [ A. de Musset ]
The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse. [ N. P. Willis ]
The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.
The April is in her eyes; it is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second. [ Richter ]
Grief has two forms of expression, laughter and tears; and tears are not the saddest. [ L. Blanc ]
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears - the one of grief, the other of deceit. [ Pythagoras ]
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. [ Aaron Hill ]
Sweet tears! the awful language eloquent of infinite affection, far too big for words. [ Pollok ]
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]
The waiting tears stood ready for command, and now they flow to varnish the false tale. [ Rowe ]
To me the meanest flower that blows, can give thoughts that often lie too deep for tears. [ Wordsworth ]
Nature has lent us tears - the cry of suffering when the man at last can bear it no longer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. [ Ovid ]
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. [ Johnson ]
She was a good deal shocked, - not shocked at tears, for women shed and use them at their liking. [ Byron ]
But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. [ Hooper ]
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it, when living. [ Beranger ]
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. [ Johnson ]
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command. [ Amiel ]
Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. [ Sterne ]
Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. [ M. de Guérin ]
Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. [ S. Lover ]
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that. [ Christian Scriver ]
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful: joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
Whatever the world may say, there are some mortal sorrows; and our lives ebb away less through our blood than through our tears. [ P. Juillerat ]
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. [ T. L. Cuyller ]
Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]
Soul rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. [ J. T. Headley ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. God welcomes whoever has dried tears, either under the crown of the martyrs, or under wreaths of flowers. [ Beranger ]
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. [ John Sterling ]
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. [ Thackeray ]
The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]
Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes, form the chief interests of human life. [ Channing ]
Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: Thou livest forever! [ Byron ]
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. [ Sterne ]
That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]
A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day, till some woman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses it, but more frequently tears it.
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]
Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. [ Washington Irving ]
Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]
Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]
The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]
Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]
At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]
Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name?
The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann.
[ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]