Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king."
Tears quotes
Tears
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!"
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"Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters."
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"Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say."
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"Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious"
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"The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time."
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"Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought."
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"it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."
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"If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
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"My aim is to spread more smiles than tears."
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"An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married."
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"Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle."
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"But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad."
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"As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement."
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"His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears."
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"I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens"
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"Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner."
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"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying."
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"One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth."
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"You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you"
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