1,233 Quotes About Tears

  • Author Caitlin Thomas
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    [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

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  • Author Deborah Tannen
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    Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

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  • Author Mike Tyson
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    Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

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  • Author Rabindranath Tagore
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    The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

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