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“Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.”
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
Noel Christmas Eve 1913.
Poetry
“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“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]
“E’en like the passage of an angel’s tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Sonnet. To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent"
Poems (1817)
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman