Tears
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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.
Waiting for Godot
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before - more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Great Expectations
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
It is such a secret place, the land of tears
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command
Nothing dries sooner than a tear
Tears are at times as eloquent as words
Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Laodamia
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