
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
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Source: Illuminations
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
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“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
Attributed to Teresa by Truman Capote in "An Interview with Truman Capote" by Don Lee Keith, in Contempora (October/November 1970), p. 40, as the source of the title of a work in progress which he intended as a novel, to be called Answered Prayers; no earlier publications of such an attribution has yet been located.
Variants:
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Attributed in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
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“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
“Mary sheds tears because men call her "The Mother of God."”
Chick tracts, " Why Is Mary Crying? http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0040/0040_01.asp" (1987)
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
As Katie Taylor triumphed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0811/1224321996178.html
Olympic Games
“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
As quoted in The Amazon of Letters, Ch. 10 (1976) by George Wickes