“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
“Weep for life, with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear;
Let tears and the sign of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead!”
(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
From Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Marcia.html (trans. J. W. Basore) <br class="br">Other works
George C. Lorimer (1838–1904) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282.
“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
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author
Disputed
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”
Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) British psychiatrist
[Maudsley, Henry, The Pathology of Mind, Macmillan, 1895, 978-0-598-47100-0, https://books.google.com/books?id=C5QXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138, 138]
“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.