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God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are...

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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and n...

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Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shac...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

He saw tears rimming her blue eyes, tears that washed away Drizzt's anger, that told him that what h...

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears spe...

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She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...

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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...

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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

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If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a tur...

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I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody els...

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through...

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I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot...

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When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pul...

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Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televi...

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Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...

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If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't m...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables - anthology

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort...

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W. S. GilbertThe Pirates of Penzance

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew c...

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers ...

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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

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

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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even lou...

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Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you ...

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Agatha ChristieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him...

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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must lea...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no w...

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Lonesome tearsI can't cry them anymoreI can't think of what they're forOh they ruin me every timeBut...

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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, e...

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When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know th...

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Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, no...

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Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fu...

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she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Faith," said Jem. "That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not al...

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A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha...

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And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ...

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When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands."Er," Magnus said. "Ar...

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When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the ...

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Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace betwee...

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You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then...

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So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...

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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've hel...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choos...

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The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhoo...

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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Laugh now, cry later.

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Erma BombeckThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a c...

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The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her hea...

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She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned h...

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François MauriacThérèse Desqueyroux

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!''There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the...

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Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surpr...

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Past tears are present strength.

...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

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These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come fro...

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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his t...

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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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