Tear Quotes

It all ends in tears anyway.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.[As palavras são lágrimas que foram escritas. As lágrimas são palavras que precisam jorrar. Sem elas, nenhuma alegria tem brilho, nenhuma tristeza tem um final.]

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.[Les larmes ruissellent le long de mes joues sans que j’éprouve le besoin de cligner les yeux. Qu’est-ce qui me fait pleurer ainsi? De temps en temps. Il n’y a rien ici qui puisse attrister.]

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.[Les larmes du monde sont immuables. Pour chacun qui se met à pleurer, quelque part un autre s’arrête. Il en va de même du rire.]

The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.

Tears. The woman’s weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man’s weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn’t it?

Tears are the silent language of grief.[Les larmes sont le langage muet de la douleur.]

Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

It’s so mysterious, the land of tears.[translation by Richard Howard]It is such a secret place, the land of tears.[translation by Katherine Woods][C’est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.]