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

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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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

  Work Out, Way, Bittersweet

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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

  Joanne Harris

  Happiness, Sweet, Heart

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

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

  Paul Feig

  Real, Style, Comedy

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• 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

  Mean, Feelings, Bittersweet

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• 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

  Heart, Size, Spirit

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• 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

  Basketball, Winning, Want

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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

  Madame de Stael

  Sweet, Memories, Joy

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• 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

  Beautiful, Sweet, Want

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• 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

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• 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

  Sweet, Believe, Roots

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• 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

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  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

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

  Cassandra King

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• 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

  Sweet, Pain, Comfort

  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

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• 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

  Sweet, Moon, Night

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• 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

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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

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• 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

  Weed, Sweet, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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

  Sarah Turnbull

  Sweet, Two, Knowing

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

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• 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

  Sweet, Opportunity, Years

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• 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.
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  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

  Life, Sweet, Art

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

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• 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

  Song, Sweet, Memories

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

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