Bittersweet Quotes

Love of my life

— Willow Anna

Life at best is bittersweet.

— Jack Kirby

“Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.”

— The Verve

“Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Falling in love is rather bittersweet.

— Raghib Clitso

“With you I'd dance in the rain in my best dress, fearless”

— Taylor Swift

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

— Aurora Guerrero

“A bittersweet montage of memories flicker past her eyes.”

— Adrian Bliss

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

— Arjun Kapoor

“You can’t go back and you can’t catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.”

— Alfred Bester

“I ain’t scared to lend a hand I ain’t scared to clench it either”

— Mie Hansson

“I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

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

— Sappho

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Sappho

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

— Gail Caldwell

“I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.”

— Ana Patrick

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains,…

— Justin Adams

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…

— Will Smith

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring,…

— Herman Hesse

“the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and…

— Wendy Wax

“Swallowing hard past the lump of stubborn resolve hitched in my throat, I let my hand wander over the top of his…

— Alyssa Turner

“Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of you the bittersweet echoes infixed forever…

— Pawan Mishra

“She wanted to feel like everything was in front of her again, like life was stretched out, wild and open at her…

— Grant Ginder

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere…

— Sandra Boynton

“He had no illusion that this was bittersweet or somehow necessary to make art. It just burned. Anyone who felt this would…

— Arthur Phillips

“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes…

— Robert J. Wiersema

“I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how…

— Sarah Brownlee

“But my loyalties were elsewhere. And the flavor of Pippa’s kiss—bittersweet and strange—stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and…

— Donna Tartt

Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I…

— Needa Muy

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose.…

— Woody Allen

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey…

— Sarah Vowell

“I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it…

— Alicia Kobishop

“her words filled John with a bittersweet”

— Mona Prevel

“From now on, they could never be strangers again.”

— Saekisan

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

— Anonymous

Bittersweet memory that's what you are too me.

— Olivia

“Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?”

— Anonymous

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley