Emily Brontë

"The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart, but really with it, and in it."

Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

John Vance Cheney

"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears."

John Vance Cheney

George Gordon Byron

"In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears"

George Gordon Byron

Maya Angelou

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; get my work done; try to love somebody; and have the courage to accept their love in return".

Maya Angelou