I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
Camille Claudel

I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Lizette Woodworth Reese

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
Claude Vorilhon

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Louis Kronenberger

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Frank Luntz

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven