Top 100 Quotes About Sweetness
#1. Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
Ovid
#2. Oh, there is sweetness in the mountain air And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
George Gordon Byron
#3. We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.
Tara Brach
#4. Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. Kissing me will not make the horse any smaller."
Laughter rumbled from Gray's chest as he closed his arms around her. He inhaled the sweetness of her hair and nuzzled the warm silkiness just behind her ear. "Kissing ye will no' make me any smaller either.
Maeve Greyson
#6. Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
Edward Hoagland
#7. With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days.
Jose Andres
#8. Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.
Ben Okri
#9. Not all honey - she had concluded - had a specific use beyond what all honey is good for, sweetness and salves. But this honey, it was somehow so strong that it must be for something, though she had still not learnt what it was. The best she had come to was that this honey was for joy ...
Robin McKinley
#10. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".
O. Henry
#11. For breakfast, I make an amazing protein shake with fruit, Greek yogurt, protein powder, flaxseed oil and honey. It's a nice way to get a healthy start and a little bit of sweetness, too.
Lindy Booth
#12. And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.
Oscar Wilde
#13. The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
Thomas Watson
#14. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.
Marion Woodman
#15. I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#16. When you find real love - protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.
Bryant McGill
#17. In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
Stephen King
#18. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
#19. To imagine...to dream...to aspire...to desire. The four nectars of life. Drink deep and savor the sweetness."
David Robbins
David Robbins
#20. Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#21. Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#22. She was in herself, like a woman near term,
and did not think of the man, going on ahead,
or the path, climbing upwards towards life.
She was in herself. And her being-dead
filled her with abundance.
As a fruit with sweetness and darkness,
so she was full with her vast death.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#23. There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation.
Mitch Albom
#24. Your value and self-worth is not found in your former lover, not in the loving words of they spoke, not in the gentle ways that they held you, not in the sweetness of their kiss; but found in the love that you have for yourself.
Forrest Curran
#26. This splendid vision dwelt in her memory as the most beautiful thing that it was possible to dream, so that now she strove to recall her sensation. That still lasted, however, but in a less exclusive fashion and with a deeper sweetness. Her soul, tortured by
Gustave Flaubert
#27. Life is Beauty, Mystery, Sweetness and Terror. Get married soon as possible so when you get divorced, you're not too old.
Miss Agony
W.H. Manville
#28. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde
#29. Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.
Richelle Mead
#30. Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.
John Of Kronstadt
#31. you feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest - burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.
Aliette De Bodard
#32. India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.
Narendra Modi
#33. [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
Mary Russell Mitford
#34. Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
George Fordyce
#35. She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.
Sylvain Reynard
#36. So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.
Emma Donoghue
#37. We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.
Midge Decter
#38. He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.
Ann Aguirre
#39. If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.
Orison Swett Marden
#40. Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.
Jaggi Vasudev
#41. The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts
Stephen Gaskin
#42. She was as beautiful as the Madonna statue they kept in the church. Her beauty went so much deeper than her face or body; it was a manifestation of her innocence, the sweetness she showed everyone, the steadfast loyalty that she gave to others even though it had never been given to her.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#43. I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken. I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
Mary Oliver
#45. Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.
Omar Suleiman
#46. I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.
Sonya Walger
#47. The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.
Virginia Woolf
#48. After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
Helen Steiner Rice
#49. The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.
Rumi
#50. Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just
well
being sad.
Linda Lael Miller
#51. For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
#52. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.
Anonymous
#53. Tea-
The sweetness of love,
The fragrance of flowers,
The comfort of a friend,
The warmth of a hug
-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.
Zakiyya Rosebelle
#54. A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.
Knut Hamsun
#55. Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.
Kate Forsyth
#56. And you ma'am, are pure sweetness and light!" He grinned slowly. He mocked her in return, but he was surprisingly, wickedly handsome.
Heather Graham
#57. When that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.
Robert Michael Pyle
#58. Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
Marc Chagall
#59. It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
Carlos Castaneda
#60. No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#61. My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#62. Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
Nicolas Poussin
#63. Treat everyone with the sweetness of love and respect.
Debasish Mridha
#64. He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly ... that tartness was part of the allure all along.
Victoria Kahler
#65. It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect
truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
John Ruskin
#67. Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.
Philip Zimbardo
#68. We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.
Richard Wurmbrand
#69. Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#70. There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
John Wesley
#71. What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#72. Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
Peter Heller
#74. The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
Henry Ward Beecher
#75. His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi's kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy.
Lani Wendt Young
#76. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#77. Gathering the golden harvest through long summer days leaves a lasting sweetness to ripen in a man's soul. The smell of newly carted hay can be a lasting memory even in strange cities.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#79. I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
Barry White
#80. If a happy ending is what you're after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it's the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It's what they know, and it's why i write.
Mark T. Barnes
#81. See that caravan of camels
loaded with sugar?--
His eyes contain that much sweetness.
But don't look into His eyes
unless you're ready to lose all sight of your own.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#82. It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
#83. Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
Pierre Dukan
#84. If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God's purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
Oswald Chambers
#85. The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.
Marion Woodman
#86. What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see [gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby] from this gorgeous artwork.
Russell Brand
#87. Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
John Muir
#88. In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.
Rumi
#89. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#90. Decade
When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread,
Smooth and pleasant.
I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.
Amy Lowell
#91. I think that's the beauty of love, wanting to be with someone; taste their sweetness and their fears, live their lives and be there in their death, share their ups and their downs, and most importantly, love them and grow old with them, even if they were some kind of monster.
Cameron Jace
#92. Out. The smile that Lord Janos Slynt smiled then had all the sweetness of rancid butter. Until Jon said, "Edd, fetch me a block," and unsheathed Longclaw.
George R R Martin
#93. Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
#94. I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
John Climacus
#95. For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#97. And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.
John Collier
#98. Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'
Issan Dorsey
#99. People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.
Bette Davis
#100. Sweetness is not in itself unhealthy, we simply eat only the most unhealthy kind of sweetness.
Giulia Enders
