1,233 Quotes About Tears

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear