Top 100 Quotes About Bittersweet
#1. Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.
Freya North
#2. You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
David Levithan
#3. I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.
Christina Baker Kline
#4. The evening air holds the bittersweet tang of what might have been,
Ally Condie
#5. 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
#6. Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
The Verve
#7. He touches my bottom lip, leaving behind a smear of fruity glaze. He watches as I suck away the bittersweet residue, then he licks the rest of the glaze from his fingertip. At the appearance of his tongue, heat blossoms in my face.
He smirks. "Look at that. I revived the color in your cheeks."
A.G. Howard
#8. I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
Graham Kerr
#9. her words filled John with a bittersweet
Mona Prevel
#10. The honeymoon was taking place in the bittersweet mysteries of Indian Summer in New England.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
Ellen Hopkins
#12. I guess that's what makes lust so bittersweet. The feeling is beautiful, but the effort it takes to deny it is way too hard.
Colleen Hoover
#13. Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.
Michael J. Sullivan
#14. As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.
Chica Umino
#15. ...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
#16. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
#17. My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Paul Feig
#18. Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.
Sylvia Nasar
#19. 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
#20. You're impossible." I sighed. "And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you."
"Is that a good thing or not?"
I shrugged. "You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection."
"Gross.
Rea Lidde
#21. With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
Sappho
#22. We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
Richard Bach
#23. The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.
Harper Lee
#24. Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me.
Sappho
#25. At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
Robert Breault
#26. We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
Robin Hobb
#27. How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
Albert Camus
#28. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.
Heather Gudenkauf
#29. And like my comrades, I too have
tasted the bittersweet
assurance that I
would be okay with myself.
And like so many others
out there, I have given that
dream away to the wind
and its power over the trees.
A.P. Sweet
#31. After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
Luanne Rice
#32. 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
#33. Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.
Damien Echols
#34. It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
Yakov Smirnoff
#35. I wanted it, I wanted it all. All the ardent beginnings and the confused between-times and the bittersweet dregs.
All of the aches and sorrows, all of the soaring joys.
All of it.
Jacqueline Carey
#36. 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
#37. We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.
Courtney M. Privett
#38. Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart.
Dean Koontz
#40. 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
#41. I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.
Stockard Channing
#42. I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role ... I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.
Will Smith
#43. Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
Sappho
#44. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.
Alicia Kobishop
#45. 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
#46. That's the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.
Katherine J. Walden
#47. If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.
Martha Beck
#48. I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
Wentworth Miller
#49. Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.
Hugh Hefner
#50. As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
Iggy Azalea
#51. It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
Will Smith
#52. Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... .
Sappho
#53. I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.
Ana Patrick
#54. Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.
Jose Andres
#56. How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
Charles Baudelaire
#57. I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.
Gina McKee
#58. 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
#59. And the pomegranates,/
like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
#60. Love is just as much suffering as it is sweetness. If it was perfect, that's what they'd all it. They wouldn't call it bittersweet.
Nicole Williams
#61. A day doesn't go by without me dreaming of your smile and your beautiful love
My heart aches everyday that goes by when your not at my side
It's a bittersweet feeling, because as long as I have tomorrow then I will always have a second chance at making you smile
Austin V. Songer
#62. I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.
Sarah Silverman
#64. That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.
Gail Caldwell
#65. A bittersweet truth: she wasn't anyone's baby anymore. She'd been left bereft. Her value diminished. She was poor. Alex
Suanne Laqueur
#66. Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton
#67. There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
Bruno Mars
#68. carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family's loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves out of poverty.
Saroo Brierley
#69. Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.
Amanda Bouchet
#70. It seemed to Don Jaime that you could find in the memory of every man the bittersweet shadow of a woman.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#71. It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
Herman Hesse
#72. He searched her eyes, and there it was. A sense of time slowing down. A world melting away with only two souls remaining. An eternity of longing. Bittersweet and desperate.
Couldn't she feel it, too?
Kerrelyn Sparks
#73. 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
#74. Come with me outside," he says, and I feel his hand on mine. "We won't go far." I can't see him; but I hear a complicated mix of emotion in his voice and feel it in the way he touches me. Love, concern, and something unusual, something bittersweet.
Ally Condie
#75. My rock candy passion is bittersweet
And armed to the teeth
Cuz she would rather fall in chocolate
Than fall in love.. Especially with me!
Owl City
#76. Growing up really is bittersweet.
Jenny Han
#77. Every reader should ask himself periodically "Toward what end, toward what end?" - but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
Alan Perlis
#78. 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
#80. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
#81. The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.
Mike Norton
#82. There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.
Scott Westerfeld
#83. Darling, you know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
I give her a lopsided, bittersweet smile.
"I think I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope he doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. James
#84. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.
Alan McCluskey
#85. No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.
And precious.
V.S. Carnes
#86. The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I work for God. The worst part is that matchmakers can often fix everyone up, all the way to the altar, but cannot find love themselves, so it is bittersweet.
Patti Stanger
#87. We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Michel De Montaigne
#88. It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.
Diyar Harraz
#89. When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.
Adrianne Marcus
#90. The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.
Marc Parent
#92. 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
#93. Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps
#94. I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox.
Michael Chabon
#95. 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
#96. So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.
Cathy Rigby
#97. The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
Edward Hirsch
#98. 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
#99. There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.
Jacob Latimore
#100. Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
Sharon Salzberg
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