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:

    “So. Let me accept the role, and call
    Myself the circumstances’ tennis-ball:
    We’ll bounce: together
    Or not, whether
    Either, let no tears silent fall.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “He, too, had tears for all souls in trouble,
    Here and in hell.”
    —James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)

    “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)