Laura Esquivel Quotes

Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Pearls mean tears.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I cry all the time.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.