“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
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Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Green Mile (1996)
Context: "He kill them with they love", John said. "They love for each other. You see how it was?" I nodded, incapable of speech.
He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."
“Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Six: The Grand March, Ch. 29
“Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.”
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“Children fall into a world of drugs while their mothers cry bloody tears!”
Original: (pt) As crianças caem no mundo das drogas enquanto suas mães choram lágrimas de sangue!
“He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”
Down By The Salley Gardens http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1476/
Crossways (1889)
Context: p>Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.</p