Tears Quotes

‘Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.’ – Washington Irving

‘Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ – Karen Blixen

‘When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.’ – Sid Waddell

‘The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.’ – Ralph Ransom

‘Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘Tears are the silent language of grief.’ – Voltaire

‘You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?’ – Rumi

‘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 Vonnegut

‘The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.” – Billy Graham

‘Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.’ – Anne Bronte

‘It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.’ – Barack Obama

‘The price of championships will never change. It’s been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.’ – Tom Herman

‘Tears are the summer showers to the soul.’ – Alfred Austin

‘The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.’ – William Blake

‘Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.’ – Albert Camus

‘Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.’ – William Shakespeare

‘To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.’ – Saint Augustine

‘I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I shine in tears like the sun in April.’ – Cyril Tourneur

‘I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.’ – Bob Hope

‘Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.’ – Dionne Warwick

‘I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.’ – Cat Stevens

‘This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too.’ – Harlan Coben

‘Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.’ – Ben Stein

‘The busy have no time for tears.’ – Lord Byron

‘Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.’ – Kareena Kapoor Khan

‘Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.’ – Robert Frost

‘It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.’ – Thomas Moore

‘The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.’ – Arthur Golden

‘Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.’ – Robert Schumann

‘I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.’ – Edith Piaf

‘I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I’m divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.’ – Steve Prefontaine

‘When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.’ – Alfred Adler

‘If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.’ – Paul Verlaine

‘Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.’ – Leigh Hunt

‘Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.’ – Thomas Kyd

‘My favorite song? ‘Amazing Grace.’ Anybody singing it. But the best it’ll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It’ll bring tears to your eyes.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘My tolerance for tears is very little when you’re beautiful and crying over nothing.’ – Chrissy Teigen

‘Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.’ – Kevin Plank

‘There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘It is such a secret place, the land of tears.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘People call me a cry baby but I wear tears on my face, I’m not trying to hide it!’ – Liv Morgan

‘Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn’t thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, ‘I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes…’ I was an idiot… It’s a decade of tears.’ – Melissa McCarthy

‘I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.’ – Judy Garland

‘I don’t care about media crocodile tears for pageviews.’ – Fredrick Brennan

‘There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘They’ll take everything, even your tears.’ – George Foreman

‘I’ve always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.’ – Thalia

‘When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘I’m a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.’ – Alfred de Musset

‘While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘I’m an American songbook guy, though I’ve got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I’ve taken up the ukulele, and so you can play ‘Five Foot Two’ and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like ‘You Go to My Head,’ ‘I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,’ ‘Taking a Chance on Love.” – Tony Danza

‘I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.’ – Jane Elliot

‘Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.’ – Heinrich Heine

‘On the second verse of ‘Tears to Snow,’ I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might’ve know for a little bit, or they might’ve opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they’ll smile in my face.’ – Hopsin

‘Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.’ – John Lewis

‘The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It’s part of me, so I can’t leave London behind for good.’ – Robert Pattinson

‘I’m from a city where the tears never end and the pain never stops.’ – Gervonta Davis

‘When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.’ – Horace Mann

‘This means a lot. I’m being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.’ – Patrick Ewing

‘The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn’t dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.’ – Rudolph Valentino

‘Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand – she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.’ – Jo Bonner

‘I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It’s the relief of connection that produces the tears.’ – Michael Sheen

‘I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt – you know, a butt that’ll bring tears to your eyes?’ – Leslie Bibb

‘Don’t mistake my tears for weakness.’ – Wendy Williams

‘I call myself the hardware shelf. There’s a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn’t ask for it, I didn’t beg for it, I didn’t pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments – but it’s good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.’ – Rita Moreno

‘Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.’ – Gabby Douglas

‘If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.’ – Rihanna

‘If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.’ – Sophocles

‘The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.’ – Giuseppe Verdi

‘A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.’ – Kevin Hart

‘Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.’ – Julie Burchill

‘Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.’ – Billy Graham

‘You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can’t remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they’re all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can’t remember any of them. They’re all positive now. Even the bad times were good.’ – Don Nelson

‘It doesn’t matter what you make – if you create a movie or build a car or whatever, it’s the amount of blood, sweat, and tears and money and everything that goes into it that needs to be rewarded.’ – Yngwie Malmsteen

‘To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.’ – Jim Mattis

‘I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘I feel like a foster kid that’s been in the system for a long time, and then at 16, somebody adopted them and said, ‘You can go to college, and you ain’t got to pay no student loans.’ I feel happy. I feel accepted after all these years of blood, sweat, and tears.’ – Tiffany Haddish

‘I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.’ – Finn Wolfhard

‘And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.’ – Jackie DeShannon

‘It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What’s going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You’ve got tears going down your eyes. You’ve got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, “Is this it?” I didn’t know what a knee injury was. I’d never felt pain like that.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There’s lots of heart in our films.’ – John Lasseter

‘Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘I vividly remember sixth grade. It’s the year when kids turn mean, and it’s definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.’ – Lisa McMann

‘November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country’s beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.’ – Deb Haaland

‘When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of ‘Porgy and Bess’ is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.’ – Michael Feinstein

‘The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn’t expect it to look so detailed.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It’s the communication.’ – John Davidson

‘In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.’ – Edith Wharton

‘Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘I’ll never forget during the ‘Descendants’ parade at Disneyland when I waved at a girl with bright blue hair and witnessed her dream being realized and the involuntary tears that followed.’ – Cameron Boyce

‘Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.’ – Abby Wambach

‘The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.’ – Wilson Mizner

‘In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I’d win, but still there would be tears.’ – FKA twigs

‘Parents don’t reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.’ – Alain de Botton

‘It is true I’ve written songs for other performers; I’ve worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.’ – Chesney Hawkes

‘I know exactly what my songs are about and I try not to tell people, because a friend of mine really loves ‘Stop Your Tears’ and I made the mistake of telling her what it’s about one day. Now she has to distract herself and look elsewhere when I sing the last verse about being at the river with the baby, because she knows too much.’ – Aldous Harding

‘Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.’ – Craig Brown

‘If you say, ‘I listen to pop,’ you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark – kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.’ – Tove Lo

‘Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.’ – Loretta Young

‘I’m sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.’ – Cat Osterman

‘If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.’ – RM

‘I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.’ – Jane Goodall

‘I’d drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like ‘Tears of Joy.” – Rick Ross

‘In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she’s crying tears of joy because she’s so excited about the life we have together. I’m preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?’ – Peter Abelard

‘Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.’ – Ethel Merman

‘The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.’ – James Thurber

‘Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.’ – Victor Hugo

‘When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.’ – John Sexton

‘I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.’ – Camille Claudel

‘I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they’re like, ‘It’s a boy,’ Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.’ – Peyton List

‘Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.’ – William Gilmore Simms

‘In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.’ – Emile Zola

‘You couldn’t pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It’s much better being older.’ – Robin Wright

‘While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.’ – John Roberts

‘I’ve learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.’ – Martha Wainwright

‘A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You’ve defined my entire life for me on the screen.’ – Jill Clayburgh

‘When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.’ – Brad Pitt

‘This game wears on you. It tears you down. It’s perpetual motion for some people who’ve achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z – they don’t need to do music anymore. But there’s people who need it. And in that need, that’s when it’s tough and it tears you to pieces.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.’ – Martin Short

‘When I see sentimental scenes, I get emotional and tears start flowing from my eyes.’ – Ali

‘Red Skelton… I broke into tears when I met him.’ – Rip Taylor

‘I still have highs and lows, maybe I don’t cry salty tears as much.’ – Sarah Silverman

‘Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.’ – Alfred Hitchcock

‘TV happens. And once it’s happened, it’s gone. When it’s gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.’ – Mary Schmich

‘Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.’ – Natalie Clifford Barney

‘A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.’ – Charles Peguy

‘If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.’ – Jimmy Breslin

‘The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.’ – Laurence Olivier

‘Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.’ – Jean Paul

‘For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.’ – Juvenal

‘I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.’ – Bette Davis

‘I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.’ – Bette Midler

‘When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves – and maybe a smile.’ – Reba McEntire

‘When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.’ – Octave Mirbeau

‘Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never.’ – Margaret of Valois

‘Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.’ – Sallust

‘If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this ‘vale of tears’.’ – Claude Vorilhon

‘This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.’ – Richard V. Allen

‘My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.’ – Kim Wilde

‘My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.’ – John Cleveland

‘Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.’ – George William Russell

‘All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.’ – Lord Alfred Douglas

‘I don’t know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?’ – John Davidson

‘Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.’ – Karl Shapiro

‘Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.’ – George Pierce Baker

‘Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she’s real funny, but lately it’s all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain’t funny. No giggles there.’ – Andy Richter

‘It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.’ – Amelia Barr

‘The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.’ – Charles Simeon

‘Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ’em.’ – Thomas Otway

‘It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.’ – Frank Luntz

‘You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age – it doesn’t matter whether you are 20 or 60.’ – Linda Evans

‘Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.’ – Corrine Brown

‘Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.’ – Chiaki Kuriyama

‘I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn’t deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don’t think it is theater.’ – Estelle Parsons

‘I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.’ – Burt Bacharach

‘The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.’ – Jung Chang

‘They’re not willing to admit that I’ve also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.’ – Rene Daumal

‘Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.’ – Ryan White

‘And that’s why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We’ve seen them in a million movies and it’s too much like cranking the tears out. I didn’t want that scene.’ – Christine Lahti

‘I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.’ – Max Beckmann

‘An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.’ – Billie Burke

‘Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.’ – Randy Bachman

‘Pitching… sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.’ – Dennis Eckersley

‘I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.’ – Candice Bergen

‘The band’s never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.’ – Steven Tyler

‘Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you’re not quite up to snuff.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.’ – Shelley Fabares

‘I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.’ – Zach Wamp

‘Pearls mean tears.’ – Doris Lessing

‘Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never.’ – Marguerite Gardiner

‘Tears are the noble language of the eye.’ – Robert Herrick

‘My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.’ – Paul Simon

‘But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.’ – Rebecca West

‘The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.’ – Denis Diderot

‘In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.’ – Louis Kronenberger

‘There isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.’ – Dorothy Dix

‘Tears at times have the weight of speech.’ – Ovid

‘And tears are heard within the harp I touch.’ – Petrarch

‘Nothing dries sooner than tears.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.’ – Ingrid Bergman

‘The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.’ – Georg Buchner

‘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.’ – Pia Toscano

‘The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that’s grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there’s a sadness when we all go our separate ways.’ – David Heyman

‘I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Don’t shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don’t get to live.’ – Tony Dungy

‘I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.’ – Dave Grohl

‘I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.’ – Richard MacDonald

‘The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.’ – Emilio Estevez

‘If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.’ – Anthony Storr

‘Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they’re both laughing.’ – Michael Fassbender

‘A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.’ – Rachel Stevens

‘Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it’s worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.’ – Ari Fleischer

‘Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: ‘Lou, you’re a leading man because you’re a good actor.’ Brought tears to my eyes.’ – Lou Diamond Phillips

‘The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They’ve forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.’ – Maureen Dowd

‘I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘I have to tell you, I’m not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it’s like, ‘Oh please, get a room.” – Jennifer Tilly

‘I’m often very relaxed when I’m on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard ‘Little Earthquakes’ all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.’ – Hal Sparks

‘When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.’ – Jane Levy

‘My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.’ – William Shatner

‘Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.’ – Sally Pearson

‘I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold – we don’t interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don’t scream in your face with tears – we go home and cry on our own.’ – Michael Caine

‘Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society’s ills.’ – George McGovern

‘Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.’ – Russell Crowe

‘At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven’t been world No. 1 before.’ – Yani Tseng

‘I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn’t just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.’ – Tom Sizemore

‘Sometimes there’s that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.’ – John Legend

‘I’ve purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don’t think anybody’s written about it, or very few have, with any verve.’ – Dave Eggers

‘Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.’ – Virchand Gandhi

‘I am a late discoverer of ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry – happy, emotional tears. I just love it.’ – Andy Cohen

‘Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else’s.’ – Betty White

‘I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘I remember stealing some pic n’ mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.’ – Jessica Brown Findlay

‘And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.’ – Sutton Foster

‘When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn’t the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.’ – Susan Orlean

‘The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is ‘Listen to my words, not my tears.” – Sara Bareilles

‘There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.’ – Michael Ian Black

‘A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.’ – Josh Radnor

‘One night I’d had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.’ – Rebecca Hall

‘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.’ – Meghan O’Rourke

‘I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.’ – Michael Patrick King

‘I just don’t believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman’s right to choose what’s good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don’t think people think about that.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I’m not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.’ – Kamla Persad-Bissessar

‘Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, ‘Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!’ And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.’ – AnnaLynne McCord

‘A couple of girls I’ve signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.’ – Chaske Spencer

‘You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody’s eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody’s life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That’s why I love songwriting.’ – Rodney Atkins

‘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.’ – Ali Smith

‘It’s really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching ‘Daddy’s Little Girls’ literally in tears.’ – Idris Elba

‘I don’t hate the music, but I hate the process. When I look at it, I don’t see song titles and artwork, I see the fight – I see the emotions, the blood, sweat and tears. There are a couple of songs on there that I love; but ‘Lasers’ is a little bit of what you love, a little bit of what you like, and a lot of what you had to do.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘Well, for me, my favourite ‘Indiana Jones’ is ‘The Last Crusade,’ because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that’s my favourite one.’ – Ray Winstone

‘How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can’t we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, ‘Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!” – Dale Archer

‘Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don’t think could get up in the morning.’ – Victoria Moran

‘Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She’s not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.’ – Barbara Windsor

‘If you go back and look at President Reagan’s speeches, they bring you to tears almost.’ – Lawrence Bender

‘If someone had told me when I was a kid I’d get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called ‘I Am A Singer’, but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.’ – Irwin Thomas

‘I’ve never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I’ve got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don’t believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make ‘American Idol ‘a better show.’ – Simon Cowell

‘Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?’ – Philip Johnson

‘In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure – we all had nights when we ‘died’ on stage – but today’s youngsters simply don’t have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time – hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘No one – apart from my agent, perhaps – should leave one of my shows in tears.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘There are enough tears in any child’s life; we certainly don’t need to add to them in the name of entertainment.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘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.’ – Moby

‘My grandmother, grandfather, my mom – we’ve always been driven by laughter. It’s what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.’ – Yelawolf

‘When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I’d be in tears because I wasn’t doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.’ – Marisa Miller

‘When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that’s when we’ll have equal power.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Fashion isn’t interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It’s like voodoo; we don’t want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I’m very easygoing – and it shows in my work.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘I remember being about eight and watching ‘Pollyanna’ with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, ‘Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.’ She said, ‘You’re going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.’ So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.’ – Laura Haddock

‘I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.’ – Emun Elliott

‘I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates’ brothers. I was a great tumbler, so when he showed up at practice one day, I tried to impress him, but I ended up landing on my face! When I got off the ground, I had rug burn on my nose. I was in tears because it hurt so bad!’ – Josie Loren

‘Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.’ – Gabby Douglas

‘I’ve been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn’t get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.’ – Rachel Hurd-Wood

‘I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God.’ My fans are like: ‘Alright, Ed.” – Ed Sheeran

‘I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.’ – Donnie Yen

‘I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so… I feel such a deep connection to it.’ – Q’orianka Kilcher

‘People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it’s my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn’t acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.’ – Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

‘When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.’ – Bill Murray

‘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.’ – Rachel Nichols

‘I got the script for ‘Real Steel.’ I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It’s not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, ‘Man, we don’t make movies like this anymore.” – Evangeline Lilly

‘The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.’ – Italo Calvino

‘Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don’t do anything that bores me to tears.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘You’d think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I’ve had broken bones that didn’t hurt as bad.’ – Evel Knievel

‘When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.’ – Chris Lilley

”The X Factor’ seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it’s not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can’t imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on ‘The X Factor.” – Jools Holland

‘I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate – then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It’s not a rewarding experience for me to cook.’ – Megan Fox

‘Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen’s ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me ‘Love You Forever.’ I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.’ – Clyde Edgerton

‘When we can’t bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God’s catching every falling tear because He won’t let us fall apart.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It’s blood and tears.’ – Laraine Day

‘When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn’t really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.’ – Dirk Nowitzki

‘I’ve had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn’t be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.’ – Gerard Butler

‘Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.’ – Bill Rancic

‘For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears In Heaven,’ then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.’ – Neil Jackson

‘My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘I don’t see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.’ – Russell Smith

‘I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure’s on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There’s less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.’ – Brad Goreski

‘The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept – and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears.’ – Paul Bloom

‘The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.’ – Eric Fellner

‘If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘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.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn’t make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it – none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn’t make one witty… the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.’ – David Rakoff

”Ray Donovan’ was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.’ – Johnathon Schaech

‘I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn’t in every episode – he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.’ – Domo Genesis

‘I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.’ – David Mazzucchelli

‘I secretly love the song ‘No More Tears.’ It’s my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends.’ – Megan Hilty

‘More attention and thought goes into naming a character in ‘Call Of Duty’ than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that’s evoked by the name is quite profound.’ – Stephen Gaghan

‘On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me because Olympic medals represent all of the hard work and sacrifices made by the athletes as well as the people who helped them reach the top of their sports.’ – Hannah Kearney

‘While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.’ – Tim O’Reilly

‘All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.’ – Pat Nixon

‘All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.’ – Pat Nixon

‘I can’t cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.’ – Nick Flynn

‘If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it’s pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.’ – Lykke Li

‘The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe’s house because Mam’ Grace was slipping away, only I didn’t register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.’ – Charles M. Blow

‘Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.’ – Pico Iyer

‘I called up and said, ‘Dad, I won a MacArthur.’ My father goes: ‘I always thought your sister would win that,’ and I said, ‘Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.’ At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.’ – Bonnie Bassler

‘The moment I finish ‘any’ book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It’s done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.’ – Gena Showalter

‘Before ‘Whiplash,’ I’d had a string of failed scripts. I’d pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I’ve got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I’ve got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I’ve got one degenerating hip – that’s the problem you get.’ – Russell Crowe

‘The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I’ve never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.’ – John Darnielle

‘Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘Some of the pictures in ‘The Human Face of Big Data’ will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family.’ – Rick Smolan

‘Like the women in my family, I’ve found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘I don’t think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you’re full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it’s going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you’ve been through the tragedy, but it’s ultimately hope that I think you’re left with.’ – Gayle Forman

‘I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it’s almost always better to laugh than to cry.’ – Teresa Medeiros

”Cover Me.’ ‘Take Time To Know Her.’ ‘Warm and Tender Love.’ ‘Out Of Left Field.’ ‘Dark End Of The Street.’ ‘Tears Me Up.’ ‘My Special Prayer.’ All points back to one song. ‘When A Man Loves A Woman.’ The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.’ – Percy Sledge

‘George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity’s tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.’ – Jeffrey Zeldman

‘It’s terribly important that you can criticise people’s ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.’ – Tim Hunt

‘In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they’re frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner’s fault.’ – Elizabeth McCracken

‘We’ve pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds… It’s soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.’ – Chris Avellone

‘I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that’s the best.’ – James Tate

‘I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, ‘This is totally different.’ And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.’ – Sam Altman

‘I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn’t know that my face was streamed with tears.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.’ – Nalo Hopkinson

‘When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation… Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.’ – Robert Gober

‘Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.’ – Apollonius of Tyana

‘Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.’ – Elijah Parish Lovejoy

‘Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, ‘I’ll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!” – Neil Peart

‘Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.’ – Ellen G. White

”Blue Valentine,’ Derek Cianfrance’s emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that’s hard to come by in Hollywood these days.’ – Katie Hafner

‘We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.’ – Ian Anthony Dale

‘Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader’s tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.’ – Ben Peek

‘Oh, there’s a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I’ve seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.’ – Carmen Marton

‘Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler

‘Every time I get a lot of money, I cry, and I got a lot of tears left.’ – Gordon Gee

‘I’ve dominated past competitions, but I’ve sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I’m fully focused on doing my best.’ – Lee Pearson

‘I lost my dad two years ago to cancer, and before he died, I asked him to write ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’ on a piece of paper for me. I told him it was for an album. He practiced and practiced and then sent it to me, and I had it tattooed onto my wrist and surprised him with it. He cried when he saw it, happy tears. This way I always carry him with me.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down – and some of my friends beaten up.’ – Donna Brazile

‘The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There’s no sizzle, there’s no grab. But it’s the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.’ – David Ogden Stiers

‘There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they’re so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘The Ruined Cottage’ by Wordsworth, Prospero’s ‘Our revels now are ended’ speech near the end of ‘The Tempest.” – Geoff Dyer

‘Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that ‘lie too deep for tears’, I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.’ – Geoff Dyer

‘I take magnesium to prevent cramps. A few years back, I suffered from hamstring tears, and part of that can be to do with muscle cramping, and then pushing the muscle at that point. I also take a fish oil supplement.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘I’ve had 30 hamstring tears.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘Because I knew how hard I worked, I knew the pain, I knew the sacrifice, I knew the tears, I knew everything. Despite everything, I stuck to it. I toughed it out, and I kept my head in the game, even when the odds were against me.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, ‘My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.’ They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, ‘I can’t work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself – we just couldn’t tell – but it brought tears to our eyes.” – Charlotte Dujardin

‘Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years’ time & hard work – ‘The Life Line,’ ‘Peril on the Sea,’ ‘Eight Bells,’ ‘Mending Tears,’ – all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.’ – Winslow Homer

‘Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘I first read ‘The Scarlet Letter’ when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.’ – David Ebershoff

‘There’s a reason that male golfers don’t compete against female golfers. They’re in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It’s time to apply this logic to the online world.’ – Steve Bannon

‘I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.’ – Ingrid Betancourt

‘Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.’ – Frederick Banting

‘I’ve had to walk through a lot of my tears.’ – Debbie Reynolds

‘Cricket has given me everything. If I’m anything today, it is because of the game… where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.’ – Mohammad Azharuddin

‘I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who’s going off to college. To hear them say they’re proud of me left me in tears.’ – Tamron Hall

”Winner’ is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn’t hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘I’ve been making notes of my life, but when it finally came time to write it, it took me back, and I cried many tears. But I also think that it’s liberating.’ – Mayte Garcia

‘The way I see it, my blood, sweat, and tears are not just for me; it’s for Fifth Harmony as well. We have been blessed. Most groups have lead singers, but we don’t.’ – Normani Kordei

‘I was eating cereal on my couch when I saw the first commercial for ‘The Wiz’ on TV. I dropped the spoon and the tears came out of nowhere.’ – Shanice Williams

‘There is this film called ‘La Femme Nikita.’ I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen.’ – Sarita Choudhury

‘I don’t want to sound like you never feel anything – we’ve all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we’re supposed to. We’re humans; it’s the way it works. But it’s how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘For the chorus of ‘Secrets,’ we used The Romantics’ ‘Talking in Your Sleep’ and ‘Pale Shelter’ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.’ – The Weeknd

‘Let us not return to the old battlefield where so many shed blood and tears for the right to vote. Instead let us move forward to an era where all eligible Americans have equal access to the ballot box and have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choosing.’ – Marc Veasey

‘When you’re successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.’ – Boy George

‘The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker’s name. ‘You know how it is,’ my father said, ‘they all look the same. It’s not your mom’s fault. There’s just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.” – Jenny Zhang

‘Most of my friends are male. And I’ve known some of them to literally go through mental breakdowns and still not talk about how they feel. Except to me. My shoulders are sodden with the tears of men.’ – Jameela Jamil

‘In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people’s emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.’ – Hailey Gates

‘All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn’t know what to do. I don’t think you’re ever prepared for this.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘I always had a deep respect for people who started businesses, but now I cherish them. There’s a lot of anxiety and blood, sweat, and tears that goes into this, and I love it.’ – Julie Wainwright

‘Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.’ – Lee Radziwill

‘To play my father, his struggles, and how he overcame it all would require you to bring tears to my eyes. It has to be one of his sons. And we’re not, none of us, in Hollywood.’ – Rohan Marley

‘There’s something healing about tears.’ – Frances McDormand

‘I love Willie Nelson’s ‘Phases And Stages’; there’s so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like ‘Tears Of Rage.’ I love Karen Dalton’s ‘In My Own Time’ and Skip James.’ – Margo Price

‘I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, ‘He must become a cantor in the synagogue,’ but my mother said, ‘No, he’s going to be a concert pianist.” – Neil Sedaka

‘The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.’ – Kristine Opolais

‘It truly feels like all my blood, sweat, and tears have paid off, and you’re just excited to be a woman because you’re getting just as much time as the men, and you’re getting the recognition.’ – Nikki Bella

‘I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen – Amjad Ali’s ‘Durga.’ He said, ‘This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.’ And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.’ – Adnan Sami

‘My children make me cry on a daily basis about everything. Tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness – all the tears, all the time.’ – Busy Philipps

‘By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘When I have a good performance, I’m wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face – I’m just gone.’ – Tim Pigott-Smith

‘I’ve had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, ‘Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.’ It’s the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn’t do it.’ – Dawn Richard

‘I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.’ – Christen Press

‘People will run up to me with tears in their eyes and say, ‘You’re Ashley Graham?’ and I match their enthusiasm and respond, ‘Yes, I am!’ and all they say is, ‘Thank you so much.” – Ashley Graham

‘When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.’ – Angus Deaton

‘Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword – it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what’s happening in our world.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can’t do it – I would be probably put to tears every time.’ – Lucy Dacus

‘I want to be the first person to animate bags – everything done for handbags bores me to tears – I want to make it more playful.’ – Peter Marino

‘Tears belong within the family.’ – Frances Hesselbein

‘I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.’ – Frances Hesselbein

‘Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world – I’m just an emotional person in general.’ – Jaden Smith

‘It’s been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast. The episode ‘The King of Tears’ suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it’s not afraid of specifics.’ – David Hepworth

‘We used to have skunks that would go under our house and scratch their backs. I remember after I had my first baby, I didn’t really have many friends, but I got invited to a dinner with a group of people from town. We all took the same vehicle, and I got in, and someone goes, ‘I smell skunk.’ I had to fight back tears.’ – Ree Drummond

‘There’s a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people – when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.’ – Anjelah Johnson

‘I’m just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘I really think you get the jobs you’re supposed to get. And don’t stress over the jobs that you don’t. That would have saved me so many tears and so much frustration.’ – Constance Zimmer

‘A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a science-fiction or fantasy world. It’s about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That’s what’s interesting.’ – Jenova Chen

‘I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.’ – Keith Hernandez

‘I don’t think you’re very strong unless you’ve cried a few tears. You’ve never really lived.’ – Brady Jandreau

‘I remember, with Kendrick on ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ I was in tears. I literally was because it had pulled me and pushed me and stretched me and crushed me and expanded me. It was like I didn’t know which way was up. By the end of it, I felt like I was floating in the ocean like a carcass.’ – Thundercat

‘After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.” – Pramila Jayapal

‘Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don’t really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.’ – Karamo Brown

‘A song like ‘Tears Dry on Their Own’ is really sad, but it’s hopeful, too – that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘The ‘Law & Order’ audition was so last-minute. I was already in a shabby suit, the journey was a complete disaster, my train stopped early, it was raining, and I had to show the cabbie the way… I rushed in apologising, gave this terrible reading, and ended up telling my whole journey to them. I must have bored them to tears.’ – Bradley Walsh

‘Music doesn’t always bring me to tears; if I hear ‘Love’ by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears.’ – Lou Barlow

‘The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It’s not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like ‘Her’ or in ‘Ex Machina.” – Oren Etzioni

‘If I see someone break down in tears, I don’t necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it’s really warranted. I feel like a tear needs to be warranted in a movie; it needs to be earned.’ – Andrew Haigh

‘I tore my right shoulder to pieces – three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.’ – Alex O’Loughlin

‘I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness’s ‘Independent People’ without wetting the pages with tears.’ – Jonathan Franzen

‘My hair story has been unique because my mom’s a German Jew, so her hair is way different than my hair. She was always learning on my hair growing up, but I would sit there for hours, and she did learn how to braid hair. Early on, it was a lot of tears while my mom was braiding my hair.’ – Goapele

‘I like to think that everything I do is tastefully done and doesn’t come off necessarily like ratchet or something that tears women down. I like to make tasteful, seductive music.’ – Raheem DeVaughn

‘My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called ‘And Tango Makes Three,’ about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg ’til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.’ – Miriam Shor

‘A slice of perfectly buttered, warm-from-the-oven bread has been known to bring tears to my eyes.’ – Kim Brooks

‘This is my greatest regret – that my music is not being played, and more people aren’t seeing Chubby Checker. That’s very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.’ – Chubby Checker

‘I wrote a ‘Lenny Letter’ on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their eyes saying, ‘Thank you.’ There’s so much shame about mental illness in our country and so many stereotypes about women being ‘crazy’ or ‘psycho.” – Whitney Cummings

‘I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn’t work anymore, and I had to find something else.’ – Henry Thomas

‘I decided with my head to move to Liverpool, but my heart was full of tears. I spent two special years in Rome. My daughter was born there, and I have a lot of friends there outside of football.’ – Alisson

‘There was tremendous pressure to take dialysis, and there were lots of tears when I broke the news to the family that I was not going to do it.’ – Art Buchwald

‘One Roman Catholic School I will never forget. They sang a song to receive me. Part of the words were, ‘Thank you, Lord, for giving us Terry.’ It was beautiful; it really brought tears to my eyes.’ – Terry Fox

‘After River was born, I remember being in the bedroom by myself, overwhelmed because he wasn’t latching well, and I yelled, ‘Dave, I need help! Can you get in here?’ Suddenly my husband, my mom, and my in-laws were all in the doorway. I just melted into tears. It really does take a village.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, ‘Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!’ You know why? Because they’re challenging themselves.’ – Steven Crowder

‘It was 1995, the year Ben Crenshaw won the Masters. I was watching on TV, and I remember watching him sink his final putt on the 18th hole. He broke down in tears because his coach, Harvey Penick, had just died. I sat there watching with a box of Kleenex, wiping tears from my eyes and going, ‘OK, this is crazy – I’m crying over golf!” – Rocky Carroll

‘The amount of people that have said, ‘You’ve inspired me to be confident. I’ve come out to my friends because of you,’ that reduces me to tears every time, because I’m just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody’s life. That’s massive to me. Massive.’ – Calum Scott

‘Many hotels, I just sat there and – I call it the silent scream – I don’t know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you’ll just sit there for hours, man. There’s no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You’re just a dumb professional wrestler.’ – Roddy Piper

‘I ran out of tears when I was 14.’ – Roddy Piper

‘What I’ve seen and learnt from life is that when you give it your best, when you’re in it at 100 percent, and you give it your blood, sweat and tears, something beautiful will come out of it.’ – Ishaan Khatter

‘There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like ‘Shout’ by Tears for Fears. That’s a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.’ – Steven Wilson

‘I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.’ – Steven Wilson

‘When it’s the funeral scene of ‘My Girl,’ and Thomas is in the casket, and the young lady is screaming that he can’t see without his glasses, you can absolutely, absolutely cry. Perfectly big, crazy tears all over your shirt, into the arms of others.’ – Charlamagne tha God

‘The first time I retired, only Sir Alex Ferguson and I knew that the last league game of the 2010-11 season against Blackpool was to be my final game at Old Trafford. I was a little bit sad, but I am not one for tears. The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.’ – Paul Scholes

‘People say, ‘Oh Mark, you’re a big softie, and you burst into tears so easily.” – Mark Henry

‘If I had a superpower, it would be to teleport. The idea of seeing the world in one day is exciting, but the thought of not checking bags almost moves me to tears.’ – Colton Underwood

”The Joy Luck Club’ is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom – and bursting into tears after the screening!’ – Jessica Henwick

‘I was on a tour of a Restoration comedy in 1996, and in Moscow we stayed at the Metropole hotel, off Red Square. The food there was opulent, but in the Maly theatre canteen, there were just a few pieces of rye bread, peanuts, and gherkins. I stood in the queue and burst into tears.’ – Nicola Walker

‘It literally brings me to tears when Sara Ramirez sings. She’s unbelievable.’ – Chyler Leigh

‘I don’t watch ‘The X Factor’ any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing – it’s all they’ve ever dreamed about – then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous – it doesn’t matter how.’ – David Jason

‘The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that’s it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I’ll always have the memories of that with me.’ – Henry Cejudo

‘I don’t bad-mouth football, but I also know that it has a long trail of tears and heartbreak and animosity built up by past players who feel that they put so much into the game and didn’t get a lot out of it after.’ – Spencer Paysinger

‘Now that I’m a mom, it brings tears to my eyes.’ – Ainsley Earhardt

‘When I was five years old, I remember watching the opening of the Oscars with my mother and crying as I watched celebrities walk in on the red carpet. Why would any child cry watching the Oscars? For me, the reason was simple: I wanted to be there so badly that I burst into tears.’ – Ainsley Earhardt

‘It’s been a journey of great stress and awakening. I have given my blood sweat and tears to ‘Padmavati.” – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

‘After ‘Taramani,’ life has changed – in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie… I still didn’t get any big offers. That really hurt.’ – Andrea Jeremiah

‘We can never underestimate the emotionality of ‘This Is Us.’ Just when you think you don’t have another tear to cry, we will find a way. We will find all of your tears. We will dig down deep, and we will yank them out, whether you like it or not.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘Unfortunately for me, my England career has massively been soured. Even when I won my 100th cap, what people didn’t see was everything that happened before that – which was me in floods of tears – because of how I felt it was handled.’ – Eniola Aluko

‘Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.’ – Mel Giedroyc

‘To talk about the ’60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.’ – Curtis Mayfield

‘I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and the tears were just flowing down his cheeks, at the terrible injustice that was being described in that book and the bravery of fighting against it.’ – David Sheff

‘I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn’t have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.’ – Edwin Moses

‘I always thought we ought to recognise the blood, sweat and tears – and the sacrifices in being away from home – of former England players, and that current players should know what has come before.’ – Andrew Strauss

‘I met Angela Bassett during the awards circuit. I was actually surprised at how moved I was to meet her in person. I was moved to tears. I find that feeling, it’s happened occasionally, and I never know who it’ll be with.’ – Betty Gabriel

‘I’ve had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain’s ‘Forever and For Always’ whenever I’m there. It’s hard to shop for frozen entrees through cold-air blasted tears. Feels good on a flushed face though.’ – David Berman

‘There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.’ – Nasser Hussain

‘I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: ‘Where are my ice skates?’ because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: ‘Dad is selling them now… we don’t have money for this week.” – Dejan Lovren

‘When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.’ – Ashraf Ghani

‘Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.’ – Roland Orzabal

‘You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that’s where it ends, but no – when you go on tour you’re still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.’ – Joe Budden

‘One of the weirdest things about Christmas in this country is that people love to watch ‘EastEnders’ when everyone’s in floods of tears and there’s a huge row. I don’t know if watching it makes them feel better about their own day. Personally, I would rather try to be a bit more positive!’ – Michael McIntyre

‘The tension between Jews and Arabs tears us apart.’ – Benny Gantz

‘So actually, for me, ‘Doctor Who,’ you want it to be the show with all the emotions and all the feels, really, and that you’ve had a good emotional workout, from laughter to tears to fear and excitement.’ – Chris Chibnall

‘Tears for Fears is me and Roland.’ – Curt Smith

‘I went to live in New York and released a solo album that I now know was very bad. Roland kept on with the Tears For Fears name. It was a bad split.’ – Curt Smith

‘The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.’ – Curt Smith

‘Tears For Fears is my ultimate passion.’ – Curt Smith

‘My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they’re more upbeat and generic. Dad’s songs are ‘a little too sad’ for them, which just means that they’re harder to understand.’ – Curt Smith

‘I don’t believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.’ – Curt Smith

‘The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when we finish. Something we both like. It’s a matter of compromise. In the end what you get is what both of us can agree on. In that comes Tears for Fears. I don’t know what the mix or magic is, that’s just what it is.’ – Curt Smith

‘In film, there’s always this looking for the ‘If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.” – Nnamdi Asomugha

‘I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my parents in tears every time I spoke to them. I regret being so spoilt because within two terms I loved it.’ – Ben Fogle

‘As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies’ cries.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘I saw Adrien Brody’s Oscar speech and was moved to tears.’ – Rahul Dev

‘People tend to look at mental health differently than physical health. If someone tears their ACL, we don’t expect them to run 30 yards for a touchdown. They need to be treated and have the time to rest and heal, It’s the same thing for mental health.’ – Cris Carter

‘Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain… and one day we will forever be with Jesus.’ – Jeremy Camp

‘I heard heart wrenching stories about fans who had tickets for the 1980 show in Montreal, the first concert that didn’t happen, when my dad died. They’d be in tears. It was hard to deal with sometimes.’ – Jason Bonham

‘Don’t hold back from being an ’empath.’ Don’t be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.’ – Dia Mirza

‘Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We’d sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.’ – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

‘I had tears when the first look from ‘Hero’ was released.’ – Sooraj Pancholi

‘You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it’s a love affair.’ – Chris de Burgh

‘When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought ‘This is it. I’ve arrived. I’m going to be an overnight world star.” – Chris de Burgh

‘We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.’ – Thiago Silva

‘I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There’s a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it’s all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they’ve given me a chance to ‘see’ things again.’ – Gord Downie

‘In the beginning, we’d walk off stage and burst into tears, ’cause we were getting bottles thrown at us, and boys were spitting all over us.’ – Gina Schock

‘On ‘Made In Chelsea’ there are cameras in my face and some days I think, ‘I can’t go to filming today,’ but I just have to dry my tears and pull myself together.’ – Georgia Toffolo

‘My friends and family were also in tears with my decision to quit as they all loved me in Bidaai.” – Sara Khan

‘We men we are so sensitive and we have been placed in a bad role. It’s unfair that we’re shown without tears, without feelings. My job is to change that stereotype.’ – Kim Bodnia

‘A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury – soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping – you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.’ – Pam Shriver

‘With each concept, we change it up completely and the styles have been so diverse. For ‘Boy in Luv,’ we wore school uniforms. For ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears,’ it was a range of suits and white shirts.’ – Kim Tae-hyung

‘There are many stages, but the first step is an absolute given – the fans want blood, sweat and tears for the badge. That is no different in any workplace.’ – Robert Snodgrass

‘Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears – you want that full range of emotion.’ – Travis Knight

‘I give blood, sweat and tears inside the ring and I’m never going to stop working.’ – Danny Garcia

‘I gave my blood, sweat and tears over here – the St. Louis Rams, then coming to the L.A. Rams.’ – Tavon Austin

‘I am a confident person. I can make predictions or whatever, that is just my confidence level. If I got out there and do that, fine. If not, ain’t no tears coming out of my eyes.’ – Rasheed Wallace

‘I’ve got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me – it was a real masterclass – on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.’ – Finty Williams

‘The lyrics of ‘Ekla Akash’ brought tears to my eyes.’ – Jeet Gannguli

‘I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak’s music video, produced by Universal Music. I was in Class 9 then, and pleaded to decline the offer because I was too shy. My parents explained that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was in tears because I was too shy and conscious in front of the camera.’ – Riya Sen

‘So if I see what I will call like a beautiful match, if I watch it at home by myself, I’ll have a hard time not in tears watching these matches.’ – Tyson Kidd

‘Understand that once I step on the pitch with the Saints shirt and armband I give my blood, sweat and tears for the club and will always will no matter what you read or think. My professionalism means everything to me and no one can point me a finger about it.’ – Jose Fonte

‘I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories – harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone.’ – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

‘I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I’ve seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it’s tears and sometimes it’s just complete stoicism.’ – Tyler Henry

‘I can’t go on the court crying because then it’s a big advantage for my opponent, so I have to wipe my tears, have a good warm-up, feel the ball and then start grooving in the game.’ – Sofia Kenin

‘If you listen to Tears for Fears, they had great melodies and less rigid cut-and-paste.’ – Dr. Luke

‘You go through all the training camps, all the blood and sweat and tears. I think you play for the guys in the locker room. We don’t play for anybody else.’ – A. J. Green

‘When London first went into lockdown, Mum and I were in the car listening to the radio. We drove to our local Turkish supermarket and saw queues around the building. Everyone looked terrified. I burst into tears when I got home.’ – Miquita Oliver

‘People watched launches and tears ran down their faces, and then their kids would go jump into an encyclopedia or look online and read about rocket science. That’s power.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘It’s crazy because I did say to myself at the age of 16 that I want to be in the Premier League at 24. When I got to the Premier League at 24 with Palace, there were tears in my eyes.’ – Yannick Bolasie

‘If someone’s in tears or they’re leaving the show, it’s hard not being able to physically reach out. But Strictly’ is such a celebratory, feel-good show, full of warmth and sparkle and joy, I felt lucky to be a part of something that people were appreciating on a whole other level because they were stuck at home.’ – Tess Daly

‘I am not the hero of this film. It is Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy. The story is related to him. That doesn’t mean that ‘Kshetram’ is a devotional subject. The climax scenes will have the audience in tears. No, it is not a sentimental drama either. Devotional values have been interspersed with commercial elements in this film.’ – Jagapathi Babu

‘My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and got an audition. They said I was in, so I burst into tears, because in those days I cried when I was happy and I cried when I was sad.’ – June Brown

‘Sometimes I wonder if I loved anybody, and yet I think of all the tears I shed and the heartache. It was all such a waste of time.’ – June Brown

‘I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: ‘I don’t want to do this. I want to get away.’ They said: ‘Just grit your teeth for a year. Then you can have your break. And if you want to retire, you can retire then.’ I was in tears. I just hated it.’ – Ellie Simmonds

‘When I win a gold medal in the Olympics… I would say every pain, tears and screams in training will be worth it.’ – Hidilyn Diaz

‘Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.’ – Mark Bonnar

‘My mom would frequently tell me to save your tears for when your mother dies.’ – Michelle Zauner

‘If I can bring you to the point where you’re almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you’ve healed a bit at the same time, that’s when I get to use the gift I was given.’ – Jim Breuer

‘At things like DragWorld and Drag Con, you see young people come out in droves and be moved to tears, or hear their stories about how they found strength in what we do.’ – Violet Chachki

‘When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn’t help me get them until I was much older!’ – Chloe Ting

‘I’ve put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.’ – Caleb Plant

‘I was very nervous about everything. I was the girl who would burst into tears at the drop of a hat.’ – Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘I never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn’t come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears – like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.’ – Joey Heatherton

‘The tone of ‘On My Block’ has you going from bent-over laughter to shedding thug tears from scene to scene, and even I have to admit that ‘Toxic Turner’ may be the funniest campaign ad of the 2020 election cycle.’ – Jason Johnson

‘I don’t want my retirement to be one of tears and sadness, for me or for anybody.’ – John Havlicek

‘When I owned a house in Mumbai, my father stayed in the first floor, and we’d be on the second floor. He used to write letters to me. Once, after watching a film of mine, he kissed my forehead I had tears in my eyes.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘One evening I will always remember: In November 2015, at a meal together, he told me that he had to leave the club. He needed a new challenge. Pep played with open cards from the start. It was an emotional evening; he cried, I also shed tears. That was memorable for me.’ – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

‘I just think he’s been the most successful Arsenal manager of all time. I don’t want that spoiled and I see signs that he’s incredibly addicted to football. I don’t see that he’s got a life outside of it. I just don’t want him to go on too long and for it to crumble and end in tears, and all of us don’t like Arsene. It would be so sad.’ – Tony Adams

‘Sting was a big role model for me, as a bassist and as a songwriter who also sings. I learned a lot from him, and also from Pino Palladino and Tears For Fears.’ – Calum Hood

‘I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet – in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed pointes, the willowy, whispery arms and the bulging tights are years of turmoil and graft, actual blood, sweat and tears.’ – Angela Scanlon

‘I gave my blood sweat and tears to New York City and New Jersey – a small-town kid coming from Aliquippa, Pa., coming to one of the most exciting, spectacular cities.’ – Darrelle Revis

‘Your body is not meant to do the things we do. The girls are brutal. We really punch each other and pull hair because we want it to look like we’re beating each other up. I feel like the girls take it to another level. A lot of times those tears on my face are real.’ – Kelly Kelly

‘In November 2022, I was able to win my first WTA 1000 title in Guadalajara, Mexico. Before the finals, I was uncontrollably crying in the locker room. I am not a big crier, but I cried. It wasn’t even sad tears, it was almost happy, because I just had this feeling I was going to win. In my acceptance speech I dedicated it to my mom.’ – Jessica Pegula

‘I know that if I ever get to meet Vinnie Paul, I’m gonna burst into tears.’ – Lacey Sturm