Tears Quotations | Page 2

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

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

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It's not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, 'Man, we don't make movies like this anymore.'

I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

We're in a bit of shock maybe, a bit of disbelief. We hugged each other and there were a few tears of joy.

We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.

When we were in the jury room, there were tears shed. It was a difficult process to stand in judgment of someone else.

We remember with tears Tom Fox. We had longed for the day when all four men would be released together. Our gladness today is bittersweet by the fact that Tom is not alive to join his colleagues in the celebration.

We both had tears that first year. We had each other to lean on.

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and you're surrounded by grizzly bears. And it's - it's a very, very thrilling, peculiar situation. Every sound that you hear in the night, you wonder is this a grizzly bear coming to tear into my tent?

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

[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.

You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

Opposes compromise immigration bill- it tears apart families.

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it.

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears, ...

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

Excitement always leads to tears.

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

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.