Khalil Gibran Tears Quotations

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.