“Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.”
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)

“God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.”
As quoted in the opening of The Chalice of Immortality - Page xi - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1402215037

“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?”
“None.”
“And why not?”
“I help myself,” he said.”
Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 20)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282.