Pastoral Resources

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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.

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.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

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

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

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.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

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.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

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.

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.

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.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.