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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“But unshed tears can turn you rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Past tears are present strength” George MacDonald, Phantastes
“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“I've always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.” Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.” Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“only blood can wipe out blood, and only tears can heal” Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol
“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, and cry 'Content!' to that which grieves my heart, and wet my cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my face to all occasions.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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