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“One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John says, And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

Eye Pain Beautiful Heaven Cry Tears Sorrow Former Revelations Heavenly Fourth Chapters Verses Wipe Passed Away

Author:David Berg

“The whole point of Heaven is to relieve us of the suffering, pain, death and tears brought into the world by the evil of humanity. That is why God says that in Heaven there will be no more sorrow, pain, death or crying.”

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Author:David Berg

“There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!”

Years Firsts Past Joy Lost Heaven Realizing Forget Mistake Doubt Cry Tears Inspire Comfort Cost Eternity Gods Will No Doubt Heavenly Thank God Wipe Forget The Past

Author:David Berg

“We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!”

Ifs Pain Heaven Cry Tears Easier Sorrow Unhappy Plenty This Life Sickness Heavenly Weariness No Pain

Author:David Berg

“Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.”

Virtue Cry Tears Victory Temptation Sole Defence

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

Pain Past Mistake Cry Tears Shed Echoes Ache Past Mistakes Life Mistakes

Author:Guy Finley

“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.”

Eye Land Cry Tears Wind Bird West Warm Hills Brown April Daffodil

Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Heart Earth Fall Poor Compassion Cry Tears Ears Rose Innocent Compassionate Calamity Bosoms

Book:The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..

Source: The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”

Ifs Looks Wish Audience Laughing Advice Cry Tears Serious Judging Shed Casanova

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.”

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Author:Christopher Owens

“In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.”

Way Kind Culture Powerful Fronts Cry Tears Pages Dresses Likes Britain Very Powerful Tabloids

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.”

Ifs Feelings Parent Rooms Grief Cry Tears Huge Rivers My Family Angry Scary Dinner Cried Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Anne Lamott

“And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem will come down from God out of Heaven. Then we will have an end of pain and sorrow and crying and death. All these, thank God, will be forever done! And then God Himself will wipe away our tears.”

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Book:Tears in Heaven

Source: Tears in Heaven

“The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!”

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Book:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.”

Firsts Humans Parent Fire Sacrifice Blood Cry Tears Kings Noise Loud Idols Grim Unheard

Author:John Milton

“If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.”

Ifs Men Dies Father Cry Tears He Man Proof Turnips

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.”

Believe Moving Actors Loses Audience Cry Tears Theater Believe In Me Listeners

Book:Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

Source: Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”

Believe Children Spirit Father Lost Felt Grief Taken Cry Tears Filled Granted Emptiness

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.”

Littles Beautiful Cry Tears Tolerance You Re Beautiful

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”

“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”

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Author:Juliana Spahr

“I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed.”

Writing Sometimes Written Fronts Cry Tears Down And Moved Couches

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.”

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Book:With Love and Irony

Source: With Love and Irony

“I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.”

Want Sex Women Grief Cry Tears Sorrow Pity Vain Dry Honorable Weeping Dew

Book:The Winter's Tale: Third Series

Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series

“The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.”

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Author:Alexander Anderson

“Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.”

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Author:Rita Zahara

“I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.”

“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”

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Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.”

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers

“Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.”

“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down”

Thinking Men Hard Facts Light Care Moving Prayer Cry Tears Praying Letters Scales Climbing Answered Prayers Climbing Up

Author:Nick Cave

“Tears are great peace-makers.”

Cry Tears Makers Torn

Author:Mason Cooley

“Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, wisely long, Of sadder thought and graver song, When ailing souls grow well and strong. Oh hearken when we cry. The feast of penance! Oh so bright, With true conversion's heavenly light, Like sunrise after stormy night! Oh hearken when we cry. Oh happy time of blessed tears, Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears, Undoing all our evil years. Oh hearken when we cry. Chastise us with Thy fear; Yet, Father! in the multitude Of Thy compassions, hear!”

“The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.”

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Book:The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable

Source: The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable

“I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?”

Risk Cry Tears Becoming Bitter Swallowing

Book:Fear Nothing: A Novel

Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel

“The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.”

Pain Joy Wise Cry Tears Endure Healer Cry Tears

Author:Erykah Badu

“Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears”

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Author:Aya Kito

“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."”

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Author:Eve Bunting

“The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!”

Knows Wells Next Trouble Cry Tears Onions Chopping

Book:Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

Source: Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

“You are so amazed by grace, you're not picking a fight with anyone, you're just crying tears of amazement that should lead to a heart for lost people, that God does indeed save, when he doesn't have to save anybody.”

People Should Heart Doe Fighting Lost Grace Cry Tears Amazed Amazement

Author:Joshua Harris

“You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.”

Long Relationship Cry Tears Cold Icicles

Author:Meat Loaf

“Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.”

Cry Tears Shed Misinterpretation

Author:Bob Marley

“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.”

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Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I've seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face - I can't do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that's really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can't finish the song.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye...although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!”

Writing Might Eye Bits Lines Interesting Quality Saws Cry Tears Mum Her Eyes

Author:Iain Dowie

“I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.”

Heart Littles Moments Faces Hours Behinds Cry Tears My Heart Solitude Advantage Ears Noses Pillow Thrust Agitation

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.”

People Ifs Feels Hard Cry Tears Endless Guilty Cycles Take Me Butterfly

Author:Grimes