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

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

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

Dutch Schultz (1902–1935) American mobster

“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.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

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

Hans Christian Andersen book The Little Mermaid

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

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

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

Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) British composer

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

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

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

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

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

Stephen King The Dark Tower