“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend
Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend
“Only humans can cry tears.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“More tearful than crying is seeing someone cry.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
Voces (1943)
“Spring passes
and the birds cry out—tears
in the eyes of fishes”
Bashō Matsuo book Oku no Hosomichi
行く春や
鳥啼き魚の
目は泪
yuku haru ya
tori naki uo no
me wa namida
Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 4 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Spring is passing by!
Birds are weeping and the eyes
Of fish fill with tears.
Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to Oku, Tokyo, 1996, p. 23 (Translation: Donald Keene)
The passing of spring—
The birds weep and in the eyes
Of fish there are tears.
Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, New York, 1999, p. 310 (Translation: Donald Keene)
Oku no Hosomichi
“Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”
Paulo Coelho book Adultery
Source: Adultery
“I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.”
Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It
Source: Life As We Knew It
“Children fall into a world of drugs while their mothers cry bloody tears!”
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure
Original: (pt) As crianças caem no mundo das drogas enquanto suas mães choram lágrimas de sangue!