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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
-Alfred Austin
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
-Hosea Ballou
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
-Samuel Beckett
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
-St. Bernard
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Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
-Bible
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
-Dante Alighieri
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
-Marquis De Sade
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
-Charles Dickens
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I cry every chance I get.
-Richard Gere
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
-Billy Graham
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
-Heinrich Heine
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
-Horace
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He does not weep who does not see.
-Victor Hugo
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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
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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 messengers of overwhelming griefand unspeakable love.
-Washington Irving
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Pearls mean tears.
-Doris Lessing
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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Tears such as angels weep.
-John Milton
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
-Thomas Moore
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Books about Crying
