"What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

--George Eliot

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
-Langston Hughes

To love is to be vulnerable...C.S. Lewis

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

-Cicero

In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.
-- Ralph Marston

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
-- Alex Tan.