#tears

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#against #does #get #impatience #interest

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#eyes #flow #heart #i #i am

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. ↗

— Albert Camus

#create #live #men #must #point

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#everything #fact #family #finalist #first

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#band #bored #decided #i #last

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#brought #course #death #escape #idea

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#because #conquer #cried #eric #more

And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#joy #love #tears #inspirational

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’ ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#real-life #tears #life