Sweetness Quotes

613 Sweetness quotes by 397 unique authors

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the… — Franz Rosenzweig
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly… — Thomas a Kempis
Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand,… — Yanni
The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. — Marion Woodman
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for… — Vincent Canby
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin
We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. — J.R. Miller
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather… — Francis Quarles
Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste… — Patricia Gaffney
We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and… — Midge Decter
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to… — William George Jordan
There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music....… — Unknown Author
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body… — Unknown Author
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where there is something… — Edie Sedgwick
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and… — Shelley Berman
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this… — Marie de France
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness;… — Pope Gregory I
It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather… — Teresa of Avila
It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my… — Oscar Milosz
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. — Madame de Stael
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and… — Richard Rolle

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