our tears QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Libba Bray , The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)

2 " We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face. "

3 " Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity. "

― Curtis Tyrone Jones

4 " How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God. "

― Nicholas Wolterstorff , Lament for a Son

5 " Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters. "

― Melanie Shankle , Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

6 " The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. "

― Hannah Hurnard , Hinds' Feet on High Places

7 " Huang Sung turned to the master and asked, " Master, will it come to pass?" The master looked up into the sky and then turned to Huang Sung, " When the sky is red from our tears and the earth is blackened by the ashes of our forefathers and then, when we look inwards to where our hearts once were, then we shall know that it has come to pass, but not in the time allotted to man." From a book that I am writing, called, " The Teachings of Huang Sung. "

8 " And our tears are an expression of that which we cannot express. Tears are perfect prayer. "

― , What A Wonderful World: Seeing Through New Eyes

9 " Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow. And tonight, after crying until I am empty, I have a rare glimpse of my own interior landscape - wounds piled like tiny skeletons into the reef of conscious adult life. I am aground amid my conquered traumas, stranded as a consequence of my achievements. "

― Carol Cassella

10 " Do not cry,” she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. “Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end. "

― Melina Marchetta , Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1)

11 " Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt. "

― , It's Okay to Cry: Warm, Compassionate Stories That Help You Find Hope and Healing After the Death of a Pet

12 " I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their true feelings. And at the end of the day, that does nothing but hurt someone. The men and women of Tamaran were always taught to live by their emotions, to trust that first reaction, as it is the most pure. Cyborg argues that you need time to make the proper decision. I argue that time blurs the true intent. To Earth standards, I may appear brash and rushed. I never hide what I think. Perhaps that is why Tamaran was a target for so many invasions. Our captors may have enjoyed seeing what pain they inflicted upon us, for our tears were never hidden either. "

― Geoff Johns , Teen Titans, Vol. 1: A Kid's Game

13 " Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel. "

― Susan Meissner , Secrets of a Charmed Life

14 " we rescue our tears from the sea
secure them by writ "

― M. NourbeSe Philip , Zong!

15 " There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. "

― Kahlil Gibran

16 " O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to end;
those who exalt you see and understand,
and he is sound of mind who honours you.
You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for so
you offer calm in your moist shade; you send
to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend
up to the highest, where I long to go.
Shadow of death that brings to quiet close
all miseries that plague the heart and soul,
for those in pain the last and best of cures;
you heal the flesh of its infirmities,
dry and our tears and shut away our toil,
and free the good from wrath and fretting cares. "

― Michelangelo Buonarroti , Complete Poems and Selected Letters

17 " Tears are a wonderful thing. They cleanse the eyes and the heart. Thanks to our tears we can better see the world and our friends. "

― Robin Sacredfire

18 " When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad. "