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“We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“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
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“Past tears are present strength” George MacDonald, Phantastes
“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
“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
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“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
“Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“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
“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
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“only blood can wipe out blood, and only tears can heal” Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol
“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
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“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
“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
“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“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

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