Tears

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)

“We beg one hour of death, that neither she
With widow’s tears may live to bury me,
Nor weeping I, with wither’d arms, may bear
My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.’”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

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