“Tears are silent sorrow, screaming for comfort.”

“Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.”

“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”

“The laughter knows the depth of his own sorrows but never tears.”

“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”

“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”

“E’en like the passage of an angel’s tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”