“When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)
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Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

“Tender is the night
For a broken heart
Who will dry your eyes
When it falls apart”
Space Song, Depression Cherry (August 28, 2015).
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)