„p>’O gin I find anither ladye,’He said wi’ sighs and tears,’I wot my coortin’ sall not beAnither thirty years:’For gin I find a ladye gay,Exactly to my taste,I’ll pop the question, aye or nay,In twenty years at maist.’
— Lewis Carroll

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„I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!“
— Lewis Carroll
„Shed no tear! O shed no tear!The flower will bloom another year.“
— John Keats
„p>Now no joy but lacks salt,That is not dashed with painAnd weariness and fault;I crave the stainOf tears, the aftermarkOf almost too much love,The sweet of bitter barkAnd burning clove.
— Robert Frost
„Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.“
— George Orwell
„I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,Those of my own life, who by turns had flungA shadow across me.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,Ere the sorrow comes with years?They are leaning their young heads against their mothers—And that cannot stop their tears.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning