More quotations tagged with “tears”
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
Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the full moon through a blur of great, romantic tears?
—Logan Pearsall Smith
Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
—Cornelia Funke in Inkheart
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
—Alfred Austin
I cried at first… and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
—Frances Noyes Hart