1,233 Quotes About Tears



  • Author Noha Alaa El-Din
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    Tears are supposed to relieve the pain, but sometimes, they do worsen the pain, particularly the physical pain, the pain of the hurt pride, and the psychological pain that is accompanied by the continual waves of tears.

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  • Author Jean Rhys
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    We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married.'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought.

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  • Author Elizabeth Schechter
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    I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears sliding down my skin, into my ears, and back over my scalp. Which told me that they’d cut off my hair, too. For some reason, that little bit of vanity was what it took to undo me completely.

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