Bittersweet Quotes
83 quotes by 79 authors
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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
— J. Lynn
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I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because…
— Will Smith
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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…
— Allen Iverson
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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
— Robert Breault
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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
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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…
— Phill Jupitus
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
— Sappho
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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,…
— Chica Umino
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Life at best is bittersweet.
— Jack Kirby
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I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.
— Sarah Silverman
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
— Sappho
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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…
— Hope Mirrlees
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When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding…
— Bob Benson
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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…
— Alan Perlis
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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…
— Adyashanti
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I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.
— Eric Burdon
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Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff…
— Michael Chabon
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[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…
— Vincent de Paul
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The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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