“… my soul bleeding tears of anguish”

“She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.”

“She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever”

“… the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”

“Many have cried a thousand nights of bitter anguish without tears. And the tormented betrayal soars at twilight.”

“I was much plagued by Satan, until I found that it was God who was tempting me; then the anguish of him passed out of my soul for ever.”

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

“They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.”

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”

“But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.”