#tear

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#law #natural #pay #penalties #pleasure

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. ↗

— Paul Simon

#common #disappears #even #life #music

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#back #bring #cry #i #i always

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#childhood #childhood memories #difficult #feeling #floods

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#bad #bad news #condition #could #die

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#front #onstage #out #people #tears

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#tears

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#answered prayers #more #ones #over #prayers