“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.
“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60
The Dryness and the Rain.
Brother, Sister (2006)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author
Disputed
“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.
Variants:
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
Disputed
“The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.”
Blake Ross (1985) Software developer
Blog entry http://blakeross.com/index.php?p=150
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Epitaph on a Jacobite (1845)
Jean Chrétien (1934) 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 92
