“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

Source: Working for the Devil

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American writer 1976

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Promise Canyon

“I weep for Adonais — he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. I
Adonais (1821)

“I told him I just want to write some more songs and put them on tape. I figure the content of the songs and how I choose to answer for myself is my business. He says he is sorry, even cut to the heart, but he cannot and will not sign me, as, alas, I cannot say the things he wanted to hear. I say I am sorry he cannot hear the things I'm trying to say.”

Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.”

William Johnson Cory (1823–1892) English educator and poet

Poem Heraclitus http://www.bartleby.com/101/759.html.

“I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Kill

“His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.
I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!”

Elie Wiesel book Night

About the death of his father
Night (1960)

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: The Running Dream

“Say "no more!" No more! No more! Wipe your tears away!”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

Rattle and Hum (1987)
Context: Let me tell you something. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home; and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory of taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory of bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old-age-pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day? Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the revolution that the majority of the people in my country don't want. No more! Sing No more! <!-- Variant transcription: Now let me tell you something, I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country, in 20 or 30 odd years, come up to me and talk about the Resistance, the Revolution back home, and the glory of the Revolution, and the glory of dying for the Revolution. Fuck the Revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the Revolution. What's the glory, in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory, in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, the medals taken out and polished up for the day, where's the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the Revolution — that the majority of the people in my country, don't want! Say "no more!" No more! No more! Wipe your tears away!

“It is very difficult to explain what takes place in me when I see or hear anything majestic which allows no doubt that it proceeds from the actualization of Our Maker Creator. Each time, my tears flow of themselves. I weep, that is to say, it weeps in me, not from grief, no, but as if from tenderness.”

G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.”

Callimachus (-310–-240 BC) ancient poet and librarian

Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in Ionica (1858) p. 7
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“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.”

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