“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:
But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”

“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“The soul descends once more in bitter love
To accept the waking body”

“I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.”

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

“He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.”

“Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”