Tears

Tears

Tears are secretions that clean and lubricate the eyes. Lacrimation or lachrymation (from Latin lacrima, meaning "tear") is the production or shedding of tears.

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Famous quotes containing the word tears:

    “God’s Son went home. Among us it is whispered
    He cried the tears of men.
    Feeling, in fact,
    We have no need of peace.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “His tears run down his beard like winter’s drops
    From eaves of reeds.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We beg one hour of death, that neither she
    With widow’s tears may live to bury me,
    Nor weeping I, with wither’d arms, may bear
    My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.’”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)