Bittersweet quotes

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

#Fun #Philosophy #Bittersweet

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
-- Anne Carson

#Running #Want #Bittersweet

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

#Work Out #Way #Bittersweet

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.
-- Eric Burdon

#Bitter #Bittersweet

That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.
-- Gail Caldwell

#Loyalty #Bittersweet #Irreplaceable

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
-- J. Lynn

#Memories #Bittersweet

Life at best is bittersweet.
-- Jack Kirby

#Life #Bittersweet #Sweet Life

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

#Littles #Bittersweet #Feels

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
-- Justin Cronin

#World #Bittersweet

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.
-- Luanne Rice

#Thrill #Littles #Bittersweet

Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.
-- Phill Jupitus

#Years #Depth #Bittersweet

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
-- Robert Breault

#Memories #Age #Bittersweet

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
-- Sandra Boynton

#Chocolate #Bittersweet #Desperate

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
-- Sappho

#Done #Bittersweet #Limbs

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
-- Sappho

#Sensual #Bittersweet #Limbs

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
-- Sappho

#Love #Reptiles #Bittersweet

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
-- Sarah Vowell

#Mocha #Bittersweet #Modern