Tear Quotes
Tear quotes relate to both sad and happy times. Weeping can be triggered by profound feelings of love or joy or sorrow. They are always cleansing. It is a healthy, natural process to let your tears flow.
Read more...They remove inner irritations, physically and metaphorically. As a beach lover who is really connected to water, I appreciate this Isak Dinesen quote. “The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” I also love this quote by Rita Schiano, “Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” When was the last time you cried? How did you feel afterwards? What triggers your tears usually? Think about all the ways tears serve you. Love your tears. They help you release frustration, as well as hurt and anger. Appreciate them and yourself for using tears as evidence of a deep need for self-expression.
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He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
Sarah Flower Adams
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
White Elk
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility; for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup he brings, though it burn your lips has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elequently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Tears are liquid love.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
The one who loves you will make you weep.
Argentine proverb
Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
Rita Schiano
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.
Steel Magnolias
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
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