Tears

Tears

Tears are secretions that clean and lubricate the eyes. Lacrimation or lachrymation (from Latin lacrima, meaning "tear") is the production or shedding of tears.

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Famous quotes containing the word tears:

    “The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)