„Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.“

— Murasaki Shikibu

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„The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness“
— Virginia Woolf
„Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.“
— William Shakespeare
„He kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.“
— Homér
„The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."“
— Stephen King