“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
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writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859Related quotes
“Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?”
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“Shepherd: Men are more eloquent than women made.
Nymph: But women are more powerful to persuade.”
Amyntas; or, The Impossible Dowry (1630; pub. 1638), Prologue
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
Context: And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.