Bitter Sweet Quotes:

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

- Rajneesh

topic: Summer, Spiritual, Sweet, Duality, Becoming Enlightened

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

topic: Work Out, Way, Bittersweet, Bitter Sweet

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Goodbye, Hurt, Hurt So Much, I Ll Miss You

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

- Joanne Harris

source: Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.146, Penguin

topic: Sweet, Heart, Simple, Secret To Happiness, Bitter Sweet

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

- Paul Feig

topic: Real, Style, Comedy, Bitter Sweet

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

topic: Mean, Feelings, Bittersweet, Bitter Sweet

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

topic: Heart, Size, Spirit, Bitter Sweet

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Basketball, Winning, Want, Bitter Sweet

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

- Madame de Stael

topic: Sweet, Memories, Joy, Bitter Sweet

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

topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Want, Beautiful Moments, Panache

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

topic: Sweet, Book, Journey, Bitter Sweet

And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

- Mike Pesca

topic: Sweet, Believe, Roots, Bitter Sweet

Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.

- William Morris

source: William Morris (2012). “The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark”, p.5, The Floating Press

topic: Sweet, Memories, Eye, Bitter Sweet, Years Past

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

- Cassandra King

topic: Sweet, Book, Journey, Bitter Sweet

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.1706, e-artnow

topic: Sweet, Pain, Comfort, Sweet Things, Bitter Sweet

O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.

- George Crabbe

topic: Sweet, Garden, Past, Arbors, Shady

She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

- Isaac Marion

source: Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Dream, Sweet, Novas, Plot Twists

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Weed, Sweet, Apples, Vicissitudes, Apple Trees

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

- Sarah Turnbull

source: Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.30, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

topic: Sweet, Two, Knowing, Sweet Things, Birthplace

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

topic: Sweet, Opportunity, Years, Runner Up, Bitter Sweet

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Sweet, Art, Bitter Sweet

If I should stay I would only be in your way So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you each step of the way And I will always love you I will always love you Bitter sweet Memories That's all I am taking with me Good-bye. Please don't cry We both know that I'm not What you need But I will always love you I will always love you.

- Dolly Parton

source: "I Will Always Love You". Song by Dolly Parton, June 6, 1974.

topic: Song, Sweet, Memories, Sweet Memories, Will Always Love You