“And sometimes even music
Cannot substitute for tears.”

“Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.”

“Inaudible music may seem an odd notion, even a foolishly Romantic one—although it is partly the Romantic prejudice in favor of sensuous experience that makes it seem odd. Still, there are details of music which cannot be heard but only imagined, and even certain aspects of musical form which cannot be realized in sound even by the imagination.”

“Music moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
Is it the language of some other state,
Born of its memory? For what can wake
The soul's strong instinct of another world,
Like music?”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.”

“Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”

“Sometimes tears make more good than laughter.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.