#tear

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

— Thomas Moore

#luxury #only #tears

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#decay #give #naked #off #people

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#most #power #tears #water #women

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#believe #caught #deeply #either #i

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#bursting #felt #flew #flying #good

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#after #am #athletics #believe #exhilaration

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #i think #love #pay #tears

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. ↗

— Petrarch

#heard #i #tears #touch #within

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. ↗

— Liz Phair

#guitar #i #just #long #nails