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Alfred Austin (top)
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
- Alfred Austin


Natalie Clifford Barney (top)
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
- Natalie Clifford Barney


Charles Dickens (top)
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens


Isak Dinesen (top)
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen


Kahlil Gibran (top)
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Kahlil Gibran


Thomas Chandler Haliburton (top)
Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Golda Meir (top)
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
- Golda Meir


D.H. Mondfleur (top)
I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy.
- D.H. Mondfleur


Ovid (top)
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
- Ovid


Antonio Porchia (top)
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
- Antonio Porchia


Jewish Proverb (top)
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
- Jewish Proverb


Antoine Rivarol (top)
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
- Antoine Rivarol


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (top)
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


William Shakespeare (top)
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
- William Shakespeare


Voltaire (top)
Tears are the silent language of grief.
- Voltaire


Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut (top)
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, Jr. Vonnegut