Bittersweet Quote by Gail Caldwell

“She’d ended her life as she’d lived it: a life without compassion, kindness, or consideration to others. Her parting had now suffered the same…

— Peppi Hilton

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those…

— Shirley Hazzard

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

— Mitch Albom

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

— John Green

“Her legacy was that she loved with all she had, whether you deserved it or not.”

— Liz Newman

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as…

— Jane Austen

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

— Lorrie Moore

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to…

— Emily Dickinson

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott