#tears

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ↗

— Robert Frost

#surprise #tears #writer

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#audience #door #emotions #go #i

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#tears #christianity

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#deeds #graves #left #over #shed

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

#begins #constant #each #else #laugh

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#cry #easily #i #movie #phone

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cleaning #exhaustion #frustration #i #laugh

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#crying #happiness #reason #sadness #tears

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#how #i #laughter #me #only