“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author
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“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, book Illuminations
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“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
Attributed to Teresa by Truman Capote in "An Interview with Truman Capote" by Don Lee Keith, in Contempora (October/November 1970), p. 40, as the source of the title of a work in progress which he intended as a novel, to be called Answered Prayers; no earlier publications of such an attribution has yet been located.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Attributed in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
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Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
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Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
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“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
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Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
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