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“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.”

Firsts Eye Memories Grief Dog Tears Moon Notes Wave Sunlight Sleepers Jingles Dog Food Saboteurs

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

Years Firsts Play Games Laughing Alive Tears Baby Training My Sister I Smile Smile And Laugh

Author:Ali Smith

“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.”

Firsts Moments Facts Found Share Tears My Family That Moment Idols Cried

Author:Pia Toscano

“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

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.”

Firsts Soul Character Suffering Heaven Fire Tears Sorrow Massive Gates Strongest Scar Martyr Robes Sorrowful Coronation Gates Of Heaven

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.”

Firsts Might Christian Church Forever Stage Tears Appearance Repentance Adultery Assembly Unqualified

Author:Joseph Addison

“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.”

“This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.”

Men Firsts Humans Sometimes Hands Eye Faces Suffering Born Atheism Tears His Eyes Slips Cheeks Glances Futility Weariness Pathos Human Suffering Unconcerned Being Old Futility Of Life

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“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

“When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Has Beens Stills Eye Young Courses Stars Space Clear Records Generations Tears Remains Shining Silent Pity Serene Shepherds Noisy Sirius Orion

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love Divine, and with the eternal heraldry And signature of God Almighty stamp'd From first to last; this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men With tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Way Firsts Persons Joy Fun Laughing Tears Expression Idleness Old Ways

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.”

Giving Firsts Humans Heart Home School Form Joy Social Interest Existence Responsibility Virtue Tears Sorrow Relation Chiefs Human Life Ties Fountain Solicitude

Book:Essays, Literary & Political

Source: Essays, Literary & Political

“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.”

“Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!”

Men Firsts Believe May Doe Moments Lasts Forever Trouble Awareness Tears He Man Arms Affair Woe Mistress Love Affair

Book:Adolphe

Source: Adolphe

“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Firsts Children Hands Past Remember Father Laughing Generations Childhood Tears Gaps Ache Family Love Generation Gap

Book:Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

“Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.”

Men Firsts Made Sometimes Artist Century Tears Laughter Originals Take Me Seconds Bats 20th Century Charlie Violin Chaplin Funny Men

Author:Emo Philips

“There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.”

Knows Firsts Left Rooms Roles Break Tears Female Auditions Emily Devastated Female Roles

Author:Tinsel Korey

“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.”

Writing Firsts Persons Book Eye Strong Car Tears One Day Decided Surprise Reactions Sat Sunday Symptoms Indication Allergies Strong Person

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the "Sam" character. And it brought tears to my eyes, because you're working so hard to make something happen and you're just in there, and you're delirious with sleep deprivation. To see it work, to see his reaction, made it all worthwhile.”

“It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.”

World Years Firsts Heart Self Pain Loss Mistake Break This World Tears Honor Soar Inner Self Covering Heart Break Humiliating Initiate Hardness Devastating Loss

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The first thing I do when I get therelike all of the players on touris apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.”

Firsts Jobs Sun Player Tears Skins Hazards Sunscreen

Author:Karch Kiraly

“It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.”

Firsts Persons Has Beens Interesting Cry Tears Fake Funeral First Person Predecessors

Author:Irvine Welsh

“One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?”

“New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts New York Tears Months Healthy Torn Torn Apart

Author:Moby

“My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.”

Firsts Mean Said Jobs Tears Photographer Paris Trash Modeling Not Happy Belle Trash Cans

Author:Rachel Nichols

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

Source: The Kite Runner

“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.”

Firsts Eye Tears Bears Despair Sentences Tone His Eyes Intensity Burned Disguise Anguish Cathy

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.”

Firsts Stills Joy Rooms Doors Tears Cease Ran Tears Of Joy

Author:Jane Austen

“She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Children Made Said Running Beautiful Voice Tears Lows Fingers Made It Fairy Over It Make Out Get Well

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”

Way Firsts Clear Heard Tears India Ancient Shed

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.”

“Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Eye Wanted Break Tears Blue Swimming Blue Eyes

Book:Daring to Dream

Source: Daring to Dream

“Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.”

Firsts Courses Stuff Poverty Tears Hearing Lists Graduates Obscure Pursued Zeal Riot Obsessive Gunshots

Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach

“me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.”

Firsts Morning Tears Tomorrow Upset Dictionary Files Lawsuit Gideon Tomorrow Morning

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!”

Ifs Firsts Looks Persons Use Wish Identity Tears Down And Tired Dear Come Up Look Up Cried All Alone

Book:Annotated Alice in Wonderland with English Grammar Exercises: by Lewis Carroll (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Alice in Wonderland with English Grammar Exercises: by Lewis Carroll (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.”

Source: Where the Red Fern Grows

“Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.”

Firsts Heart Littles Ends Stories Wish Natural Steps Tears Paper Praise Breaths Independent First Steps Wrapping

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.”

Firsts Children Inspiration Mother Hours Cry Tears Fool Lays Obedience Noses Curse Fairy Touched Cried Shaking Obedient Crying Child

Book:Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

“The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.”

Firsts Heart Made Gone Tears My Heart Repentance

Book:The voyage of the Dawn Treader

Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”

Firsts Children Two Running Together Causes Nice Mankind Tears Flow Moved Grass Unbearable Succession Lightness Kitsch Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.”

Firsts Hands Eye Hurt Silence Worry Sun Forever Tears First Time Storm Sunset Gray Daring Tenderness Wounded Her Eyes Stunned Archangel Sun Kissed

Book:Archangel's Consort

Source: Archangel's Consort

“. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.”

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.”

Ifs Firsts Light Night Courses Voice Dark Answers Tears Window Surprise Gates Wet Sunrise Horns Hammered Shire Admittance

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love." Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.”

Knows Firsts Dies Love You Tears Rings Chains Offering Cheeks Toms Bowls Palms Super Bowl Lashes

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.”

Thinking Men Firsts Looks Said Eye Faces Moving Found Names Sound Tears Mines Months First Time Drawing Streams His Eyes Dry Cheeks Cried Look At Me Wrinkles Bald Man Drawing Pictures

Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us In the dark don't we know And when we are paralyzed by nightmares We know what you are. With our first cries we rail against you. We see you in every drop of blood in every tear.”

Knows Firsts Lasts Dark Walks Blood Cry Tears Fingers Winter Snow Nightmare Toes Belly Rail Paralyzed Blizzard Fingers And Toes

Author:Martine Leavitt

“I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.”

People Firsts Age Desire Felt Tears First Time Foolish

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction