quotes about Bittersweet
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Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?â€â€”but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
-- Alan Perlis -
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
-- Anne CarsonSource : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press
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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 -
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That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.
-- Gail CaldwellSource : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.161, Random House
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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
-- J. Lynn -
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 MorrisonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
-- Justin Cronin -
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.
-- Luanne Rice -
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 -
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
-- Robert Breault -
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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 -
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
-- Sappho -
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
-- Sarah Vowell