“We have seen better days.”

Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: Among some papers on my table I see the poem again which we once found out of doors, the bit of paper escaped from the mysterious hands which wrote on it, and come to the stone seat. It ended by whispering, "Only I know the tears that brimming rise, your beauty blended with your smile to espy."
In the days of yore it had made us smile with delight. To-night there are real tears in my eyes. What is it? I dimly see that there is something more than what we have seen, than what we have said, than what we have felt to-day. One day, perhaps, she and I will exchange better and richer sayings; and so, in that day, all the sadness will be of some service.

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lecture performance at CMU Pittsburgh, 2016.

"Red Hill Mining Town"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: Our Love has slowly slipped away, Our Love has seen its better day

Source: Macbeth

"Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"
Drawn and Quartered (1983)

On being told that her style was “too white” in “Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/21/roberta-flack-interview-music-grammys in The Guardian (2020 Jan 21)

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are