Tears

Thich Thien-An Buddhist Monk, Activist

Tears

"We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one."

Blood Tears Red

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer

Tears

"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future."

Past Change Tears

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

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"God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?"

Self Laughter Tears

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

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"Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one."

Spiritual Laughter Tears

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor

Tears

"He who is unmoved by tears has no heart."

Heart Tears

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka."

Fall Hurt Tears

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Jane Austen Novelist

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"Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces."

Compassion Tears Nerves

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Jane Austen Novelist

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"And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months."

Thinking Tears Good Night

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer

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"I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough."

Hurt Suffering Tears

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Matsuo Basho Poet

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"Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?"

Summer Tears Farewell

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Paul Madonna Artist, Author

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"We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that."

World May Tears

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist

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"Tears do not burn except in solitude."

Tears Solitude

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Emily Dickinson Poet

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"Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead."

Loss Tears

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues."

Brain Positive Tears

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Dylan Thomas Poet, Writer

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"Hands have not tears to flow."

Hands Tears Flow

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Anne Bronte Author

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"How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!"

Tears Odd Distress

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author

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"But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it."

Evil Roots Tears

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

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"I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life."

Thinking Heart Tears

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William Blake Poet, Painter

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"Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity."

Tears Eternity Babe

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears."

Sweet Tears Mermaid

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