Quote by Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness,

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 messengers of overwhelming griefand unspeakable love. – Washington Irving

Other quotes by Washington Irving

The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

Category:
Libraries
Read Quote

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

Category:
Books
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Crying
category

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

Category:
Crying

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

Category:
Crying

Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In womans eye the unanswerable tear! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Crying

Pearls mean tears. – Doris Lessing

Category:
Crying

Random Quotes

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

Category:
Wisdom

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. – Allen Klein

Category:
strength

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. – Mason Cooley

Category:
alone

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Dont call us, well call you. – Marlene Dietrich

Category:
Space