Sweet But Bitter Quotes

#1. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

Bram Stoker

#2. Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Aristotle.

#3. Duty is bitter to taste but sweet to drink

Rosamund Hodge

#4. There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.

Lia Riley

#5. The things that were once sweet to me are now bitter. The sun is not half so bright. The stars seem dimmer. All this wealth and luxury feels meaningless. All the world is in your shadow, Zahra. I cannot help but see you when I close my eyes.

Jessica Khoury

#6. The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#7. Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Robert Frost

#9. I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

Monica

#10. Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#12. As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Michael Greger

#13. Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

Democritus

#15. But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Alexandre Dumas

#16. Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in remembrance.

Thomas Manton

#17. Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

John F. Kennedy

#18. Vengeance." "It is a sweet cup with bitter dregs, but I have grown accustomed to it. I have drunk my fill of it, yet it is never empty.

T.C. Southwell

#19. Once you're out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

Cassandra King

#20. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

B.R. Ambedkar

#21. Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.

Suzanne Pleshette

#23. I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

Holly Near

#24. Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Idries Shah

#25. Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.

Ben Harper

#26. here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.

Lia Riley

#27. He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

Anonymous

#28. The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

William Cowper

#29. 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

#30. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle.

#31. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Avigdor Lieberman

#32. Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

Clay Aiken

#33. There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!

Bram Stoker

#34. But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
Earth's might decays, the might of men decays,
Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes,
There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend,
Or city and city; be it soon or late,
Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.

Sophocles

#35. Revenge can be bitter sweet, but if you sit back and watch, karma can be pure entertainment

Narendra Nekkanti

#36. When love is sweet, the sweetness means its light
And light may keep the truth, when love is pure.
But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.
Lovers in a fight are quite immature.'
From the poem 'A Note on Existentialist Love

Marieta Maglas

#37. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle.

#38. Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

Louisa May Alcott

#39. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

William Shakespeare

#40. Is love a passionate embrace,
where you grab but cannot taste.
your lustfull urge will surely replace,
that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads to disgrace,

Pierre Blundell

#41. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Irvine Welsh

#42. Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Charles Caleb Colton

#43. She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

Karleen Koen

#44. Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Cato The Younger

#45. Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

Habeeb Akande

#46. The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#47. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.

Hilda Doolittle

#48. I am bitter sometimes but the taste has often been sweet.

Charles Bukowski

#49. I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me.

Debi Mazar

#50. Christ will receive all who come to Him, but
Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them.

Joel R. Beeke

#51. And our marriage dissolved, like margarita salt on the tongue, leaving behind the bitter aftertaste of something that started out sweet but ended sour.

Tracy Brogan

#52. I have cried an ocean for you but still your ship refuses to sail.

Michael Faudet

#53. Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

Star Jones

#54. Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Cameron Dokey

#55. Our pasts always haunt us. But sometimes the ghosts are friendly, and the memories they bring with them sweet as well as bitter.

Kat Howard

#56. Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

Anthony Liccione

#57. We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

Democritus