Bittersweet Life Quotes

#1. Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

Anthea Syrokou

#2. To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Amy Grant

#3. ... love born of the worst kind of loss, of knowing you could lose, and of the sobering knowledge that these cherished moments they chose to grasp this night were stolen from the hands of time.

Susan Rodgers

#4. Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

Soheir Khashoggi

#5. If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki

Brodi Ashton

#6. The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

Marc Parent

#7. Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

J.Z. Bingham

#8. We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain

Mie Hansson

#9. One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Tim Burton

#10. Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

Ani DiFranco

#11. I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.

Michael Knight

#12. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#13. Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life ...

Emily Giffin

#14. The two of us are lIke sunshine and the rain. Together... We are the wellspring of all life. But between us, there will will bloom no flowers. We shall bear no fruit. For us, all of time... Shall be evergreen.
"And that's fine. I will be here always. To you... I give eternity."
Hotaka

Yuyuko Takemiya

#15. I wanted, of course, for this bittersweet season to be over. I felt so strongly that when I finished the book, I'd be free to move into another season, one of life and celebration. But this is what I know now: they're the same thing, and that's all there is.

Shauna Niequist

#16. This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Justin Cronin

#17. I am forever grateful for not knowing - What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Erica Goros

#18. The wind blows back my hair and I don't know if I've ever felt so alive and electric before. Maybe this is how life is the moment before you die, everything exploding around you to make saying goodbye that much more bittersweet.

Karina Halle

#19. Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul.

Shauna Niequist

#20. The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

Timothy Ferriss

#21. Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#22. They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and bittersweet that life has to offer us - a stoical in the hedonism.

William Boyd

#23. Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.

The Verve

#24. When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.

Shauna Niequist

#25. I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either

Mie Hansson

#26. ...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad to see them go. But I also relished in the pricelessness of things so unique. That which can be duplicated loses its gold.

Kevin Revolinski

#27. So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with their oily T-zones and random terrible days and bittersweet triumphs, the world billowing out behind them.

Mary O'Connell

#28. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.

Hanya Yanagihara

#29. In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

Hope Mirrlees

#30. I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.

Rob Lowe

#31. Life at best is bittersweet.

Jack Kirby

#32. All things passed away. Even the earth itself, the sky and the river and the stars he loved, would, one day, come to the end of their existence. But it was not a thing to be feared; such was the bittersweet beauty of life. He

Justin Cronin

#33. In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Jennifer Morrison

#34. And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive.

Brian Yorkey

#35. Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Hugh Hefner

#36. He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

James Salter

#37. The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Jon Foreman

#38. The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.

Kimberly Perry

#39. Oh it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life.

The Verve

#40. When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.

Shauna Niequist

#41. And the pomegranates,/
like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#42. There is always a reason behind actions, and there is always a reason behind the bitter or better actions we take each moment of time! No matter how bitter or better the past has been or the present is becoming, there is a reason for action! Awake and take action!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah