One more, and this the last:
So sweet was ne’er so fatal. I must weep,
But they are cruel tears: this sorrow’s heavenly;
It strikes where it doth love.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 5, Scene 2. Othello says this to the sleeping Desdemona as he kisses her. Personifying his tears as cruel, Othello still believes he is carrying out heavenly justice by killing what he loves. Sorrow is personified as having the ability to strike.