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Quotes About Bittersweet

It is still this death which continues inside of me, which works in me, which transforms my heart, which deepens the red of my blood, which bears down heavily on the life that had been ours so that this death becomes a bittersweet drop coursing through my veins and permeating everything, and which ought to be mine forever.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and worked toward, but the reality was you just weren't that critical anymore.
~ Wendy Wax
Absurdism: The concept that we cannot reconcile our desire to find a meaning of life with the fact that it is rationally impossible to do so. Also, various philosophers' ideas on how to lead an absurdist life. Some people who embrace the absurdist outlook find it hilarious in a bittersweet sort of way.
~ Daniel Klein
Reckoner Reckoner You can't take it with you Dancing for your pleasure You are not to blame for Bittersweet distractor Dare not speak its name Dedicated to all you all human beings Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore (in rainbows) Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore (in rainbows) Reckoner Take me with you Dedicated to all you all human beings
~ Radiohead
I love dark chocolate.
~ Monica Galetti
But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.
~ Raymond Carver
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
~ William Hazlitt
And here might be the moment to squirt one perfect tear, all bittersweet and shimmering with dreamy resignation. Except that as the serpent once sunned its coils in Eden, patiently awaiting the opportunity to let the biggest cat in eternity out of the sturdiest bag, so a pack of Camel cigarettes stands in these wings, waiting to come on and do its most unexpected stuff.
~ David Carr
We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
~ Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
~ Tim Ferriss
It's just that we want to love them, these men," said Alex. An intensely bittersweet sensation riveted her body. "We really do." "I don't," said her daughter. "You might someday," Alex said. "Never.
~ Jami Attenberg
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
~ Robert Byrne
The fact that the two were friends added a bittersweet quality and made the whole thing seem even more noble. The fact that so much damage had been traded over a girl elevated the contest into the realm of heroism.
~ Richard Russo
I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I learned the meaning of the word bittersweet, the acid taste of loss and the honey of hope in one bright fruit.
~ Ken Follett
Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.
~ John Banville
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
~ Emily Bronte
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet
~ Emily Dickinson
Though it may never come again is what makes it so sweet.
~ Emily Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet
~ Emily Dickinson
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life...
~ Emily Giffin
My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.
~ Perfume Genius
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
~ Robert Brault
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;Ae farewell and then forever!
~ Robert Burns