Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. — Wentworth Miller
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. — The Talmud
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. — Indian Proverbs
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca The Elder
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca
But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. — Stephen Crane
You've got to take the bitter with the sour. — Samuel Goldwyn
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
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. — Unknown Author
Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given. — Tony Evans
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar — B. R. Ambedkar
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. — Richard Pryor
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. — Amy Carmichael
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. — Nelson Mandela
There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward. — Joel Osteen
Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness. — Jane Frances de Chantal
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done. — Sappho
Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young. — Hugh Hefner
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here. — Will Smith
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
Sophisticated foods are bittersweet wine, beer, coffee, chocolate. Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. — Graham Kerr
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down — Sappho
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
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson
The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with. — Jon Foreman
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
Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet. — Ellen Hopkins
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
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings. — Robert Graves
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
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite. — Adyashanti
Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to. — Aino Jawo
How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir. — Charles Baudelaire
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. — William Hazlitt
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
As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory. — Chica Umino
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. — Richard Bach
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~ — Amanda Peet
There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up. — Barack Obama
[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed! — Vincent de Paul
That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her. — Gail Caldwell
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. — Tim Burton
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His howl trembled, rose, fell in anguish. I listened for a long time. I prayed for them to stop, to leave me alone, but at the same time I was desperately afraid they would. Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow. When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. — Maggie Stiefvater
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life. — Amy Grant
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection. — Damian Pettigrew
In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell. — Hope Mirrlees
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
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest. — Hal Borland
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