Sweetness Quotes

613 Sweetness quotes by 397 unique authors

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through... — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father… — Patricia Polacco
Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this… — Richard Russo
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too… — Albert Camus
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with… — Jonathan Safran Foer
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,… — John Steinbeck
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the… — Richard Russo
And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was… — Katherine Applegate
Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. — Kate DiCamillo
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general… — Charlotte Bronte
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. — Raymond Carver
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind… — Dante Alighieri
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And… — Thomas Gray
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too,… — Kate DiCamillo
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when… — Muriel Barbery
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch
The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. — Mary Karr
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley

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