- Environmentalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tears Quotes
Most Famous Tears Quotes of All Time!
These lines reject the idea that crying is only a sign of weakness, instead calling tears sacred and more expressive than words could ever be. Others speak to the private sacrifice behind public success, the kind rarely acknowledged. See related reflections in Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play my father, his struggles, and how he overcame it all would require you to bring tears to my eyes. It has to be one of his sons. And we're not, none of us, in Hollywood.
- Nov 07, 2020
I ran out of tears when I was 14.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
From the dignity found in grief to historical remembrance of hardship endured, this collection treats tears as meaningful rather than shameful. Continue with Broken and Alone quotes for more on hard emotions.