People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused

If tears were painful, no one would cry.

Tears are a cleansing shower for the soul.

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

    Oh, devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!