“… 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.”

Cody McFadyen (1968) Cody McFadyen

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

Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“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.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

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

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) British politician and poet

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

Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds

“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.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure