Best tears & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.”

Should Light Figures Tears Scene Solitude Paint Shade Canvas Portraits

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.”

Men Light Earth Lost Heaven Peace Sun Tears Eternal Spring Reflection Calm Clouds Immortal Rainbow Assurance Covenant Hue Arches Orbs

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“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.”

“The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.”

Light Pain Prayer Sin Sea Land Tears Wind Moon Bird Flight Love Pain Love Bird

Author:Isadora Duncan

“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

“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 action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.”

Thinking Light Fighting Dark Enemy Tears

Book:The Lost Prince

Source: The Lost Prince

“One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.”

Hands Light Fighting Darkness Tears Errors Attacking Undone Slap

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited me. Seeing this story of the Underground Railroad ... and that is such a proud part of our history that not a lot of us know about, where these brave men and women, they were heroes, really helped tear down the system of slavery just by running.”

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Author:Jurnee Smollett

“Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.”

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Author:Scott Avett

“What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.”

People Ifs Trying Doe Play Light Found Stuff Dark Audience Focus Tears Fingers Celebrate Chinese Trapped Traps Erase

Author:Amanda Palmer

“There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.”

World Way Want Enough Feelings Light Certain Turns Darkness Too Much Tears Good Enough Not Good Enough Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Alicia Keys

“I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.”

Trying Humans Art Light Spirit Tears Balance Cancer Heavy Hopeful Human Spirit Fringe Sequins

Author:Bette Midler

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”

“I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.”

Littles Two Moments Use Light Able Together Tree Tears Flower Bird Clouds Atoms New Life Floating Specks Fantasy Books Sunbeams Pine Trees Literary Love Dragonflies His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.”

Thinking Love Should Heart Kind May Long Light Care Age Lasts Past Joy Dies Lines Dark Sea Tears Safe Ocean Eternity Presses Storm Graves Thee Shore Distress Can Not Sailing Gloom

Author:Emily Bronte

“There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere down in the house, a door opens and shuts. As Zoey turns to face me, I realize that life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.”

Made Ends Moments Light Faces Life Is Turns House Realizing Doors Journey Tears Terrible Mark Series Fingers Shoulders Stillness

Author:Jenny Downham

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.”

Stills Dream Light Lasts Memories Silence Sea Tears Window Machines Wave Storm Explosions Unstoppable Shipwreck Nocturnal Sleepwalking

Author:Alessandro Baricco

“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”

Light Cry Tears Shed Stargirl

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star coming I see the mark of the ice bear In the tears of the dragon And you'd better start wishing There is a fire star coming Stay with me, my love...... ....Until the stars have blinked their last Wherever on this earth you walk He will arouse, excite, inspire, My Valentine, my one dark fire.”

Light Earth Lasts Heaven Wish Stars Dark Walks Darkness Fire Tears Inspire Bears Mark Ice Dragons Valentine Darkness To Light Stay With Me

Author:Chris d'Lacey

“The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.”

“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.”

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“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.”

Needs Light Eye Left Too Much Honesty Tears Goes On Comfort One Day Illusion Naked Bricks Liberating Shields Relentless Dazzle Bright Lights

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

Light Night Nations Stars Water Crime Tears Scene Died West Leaving Clouds Murderer

Author:Terry Pratchett

“A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.”

“Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.”

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Book:Jake's Thing

Source: Jake's Thing

“I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't fall.”

Trying Stills Light Fall Watches Tears Tails Fading

Author:Miley Cyrus

“There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.”

Light Faces Stars Tears Moon Ran Cheeks Mercury

Book:Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

“Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.”

People Said Light Eye Wanted Felt Waiting Hurt Blood Tears Hair Died Breaths Tired Locks Her Eyes Slowing

Book:Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files

Source: Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

Men Mind Heart Persons Light Names Strong Break Fire Love You Tears Painting Ten Shadow Seven Forgotten Hardest Pale Strong Man Persons Love Name Of The Wind Kvothe

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they weren’t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.”

Stills Hands Light Eye Moving Felt Space Saws Tears Mouths Shadow Hot His Eyes Cheeks Catching

Author:Paolo Giordano

“Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.”

Ifs Knows Children Doe Light Father Prayer Love You Tears Source Clouds Heavenly Silver Shed Heavenly Father

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“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

“Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.”

Light Moving Tears Kissing Distance Lips Circus Catching Brighter Sparkle Dazzling Patron Marcos Bonfire

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.”

“He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”

Giving Light Tears Sorrow Grieving Candle Woe Jewels Velvet

Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

“The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good”

Years Doe Light Form Evil Lines Darkness Fire Tears Overcoming Sight Ice Dragons Paradox Overcoming Fear Dividing Fire And Ice

Author:P. C. Cast

“Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.”

Persons Light Minutes Tears Bed Concerned Following Sentences Good Person Rewriting

Author:Edward Gorey

“Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.”

Source: Lord Foul's Bane

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