“Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.” WayHeartSoulSometimesMightEyePainNightGoneMissingTearsMy HeartOne DayFilledDearMy SoulBrokeGuestsUnwelcome Author:J. California Cooper
“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.” BookFacesMovingPoetryTearsPoetOne DayRanShelves Author:William Everson
“I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.” BoysHeardTearsOne DaySingersTouchedMelancholyEgyptianMosques Author:Shahin Najafi
“Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my eyes after Sunday that I thought was an allergy, until one day I sat in the car and decided to just let my eyes tear up so that whatever was in them would come out, and what came out were tears that wouldn't stop. It was literally a physical reaction that was my first indication there was anything wrong.” WritingFirstsPersonsBookEyeStrongCarTearsOne DayDecidedSurpriseReactionsSatSundaySymptomsIndicationAllergiesStrong Person Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in jail and if I kept them off the street one day more, that may have been one less crime victim.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsMayHas BeensGuyWalksDealsStreetsCrimeTearsOne DayMurderVictimMarchJailBathroomBad GuysWipeRetrospectKeithCourtroomCrime Victims Author:Nancy Grace
“I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached many memorial services where you see the sadness and the tears for those attending, and then you see how quick people are to laugh as they remember funny and happy things about their loved ones. And if the deceased knew Christ, those in attendance are able to rejoice as they anticipate the reunion that will one day come.” PeopleThinkingRememberChristLaughingSadnessTearsSorrowOne DayLoved OnesRejoiceMemorialReunionDeceased Author:Randy Alcorn
“I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.” EnoughRememberSecurityTearsOne DaySittingUnhappySwimmingPoolCheeksExplodingStreaming Author:Ingrid Bergman
“I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.” PeopleIfsWantMomentsProblemUsedTearsOne DayMirrorsBlameClarityLooking In The MirrorMoments Of Clarity Author:Tom Sizemore
“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.” ThinkingHeartLittlesLongMatterTearsLessonsOne DayForgottenInventingEscapingRemnants Book:Molloy Source: Molloy
“People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.” PeopleYearsChildrenMatterHardFeelingsMightMovingEffortTearsOne DayAnxietyProsperityImpressionYieldTornSomewhere ElseBlocked Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldDoeMotherGirlFoundFatherUnderstandingSoundMistakeTearsOne DayForgivingBitterForgive MeMy GirlFound YouBeastlyLearn To Forgive Author:Libba Bray
“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.” NeedsLightEyeLeftToo MuchHonestyTearsGoes OnComfortOne DayIllusionNakedBricksLiberatingShieldsRelentlessDazzleBright Lights Book:The Sweet Far Thing Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.” LeftTearsHigherOne DayNecksDrains Book:Practical magic Source: Practical magic