„A woman withers when she is watered only with tears.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Quotes about tears
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„Just as I was starting on my journey the idea came to me for a new symphony, this time with a program, but a program which will remain an enigma to all— let them guess it who can. It will be called "A Programmatic Symphony" (No. 6). During my trip, while composing in my mind, I frequently shed tears. When I got home I settled down to sketch it, and the work went so furiously that I had the first movement completely ready in less than four days and the remaining movements are already clearly outlined in my head. Half the third movement is already done. There will be much innovation of form in this symphony— and incidentally, the finale will not be a noisy allegro but, on the contrary, a long drawn-out adagio. You can't imagine what bliss I feel, being convinced that my time is not yet passed and I can still work. Perhaps, of course, I'm mistaken, but I don't think so.“
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian composer 1840 - 1893
Letter to a nephew (late February 1893)
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„God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.“
— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
As quoted in Rasputin: The Untold Story By Joseph T. Fuhrmann p.100
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„You know that feeling you get / You feel you're older than time?
Do you keep the receipts for the friends that you buy?
And I hope you know / That it won't let go / It sticks around with you until the day you die.
I hope the tears don't stain the world that waits outside.“
— Noel Gallagher British musician 1967
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„If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.“
— Sophocles ancient Greek tragedian -496 - -406 BC
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
„We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.“
— George Sand, Mauprat
Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121
„He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:—
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!'
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine—it is not I.“
— Edwin Arnold British poet and journalist 1832 - 1904
After Death in Arabia.
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„There is a sacredness in tears.... They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.“
— Washington Irving writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783 - 1859
„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.“
— Washington Irving writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783 - 1859
„If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.“
— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941
„I know of a cure for everything: salt water... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.“
— Karen Blixen Danish writer 1885 - 1962
As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
