-:Author Unknown:- Giving up doesn't always
mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you
are strong enough to let go.
-:Lord Byron:-
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a
body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a
bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
-:Horace:-
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something
affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
-:Oscar Wilde:-
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
-:Octave Mirbeau:-
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such
a pungent smell of decay.
-:Voltaire:-
Tears are the silent language of grief.
-:Henry Maudsley:-
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
-:Kahlil
Gibran:-
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-:William Shakespeare:-
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
-:Charles Dickens, Great
Expectations, 1860:-
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the
blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
-:Steel Magnolias:-
Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion.
-:Jewish Proverb:-
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-:Antonio Porchia,
Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin:-
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
-:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince:-
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
-:Dorothy Parker:-
Lips that taste of tears, they say, Are the best for kissing.
