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Albert Smith
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Alfred Austin, Savonarola
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine Rivarol
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Dorothy Parker
Lips that taste of tears, they say,Are the best for kissing.
Eileen Mayhew
Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
Golda Meir
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Henry Maudsley
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Jean Rhys
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
Jewish Proverb
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
John Vance Cheney
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Kahlil Gibran
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Ovid
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
 
 
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