The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. – Uniek Swain
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. – Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom"
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. – James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. – Author Unknown
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas Moore, c.1813 song “Come, Ye Disconsolate”
My love-lies-bleeding. – Thomas Campbell
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. – From the television show The Wonder Years
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. – Charlie Brown
Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow.& – James Matthew Barrie
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Kahlil Gibran
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. – John Vance Cheney
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Antoine Rivarol
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. – Ovid
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. – Albert Smith
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish Proverb
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
