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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.
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.