“No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.”

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“Oh, mamma, mamma, please don't tear; don't rip…”

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”

“Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.”

“No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.”

“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”

“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”