Quotes About Bittersweet

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing. — MARC PARENT, Believing It All

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

It's possible that feeling bittersweet may be more frequently experienced or recognized by people who have a more nuanced ability to interpret their emotional states.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

Todo parecía tan real que apenas podía imaginarme que me hubiese sucedido en otro tiempo; y, sin embargo, cada episodio acontecía no como un paso más en la lógica de las cosas, sino como algo esperado. Así es como el recuerdo gasta bromas para bien o para mal; para el placer o el dolor; para la felicidad o la aflicción. Así se explica que la vida tenga sabor agridulce y que lo que uno hiciera antaño se revista de eternidad.

There is, on rare occasions, true joy, but each time that precious, startling moment then dwindles, and in each face you see a hint of sorrow—as if what was just found will now be for ever remembered as a thing lost. Can you be nostalgic for the instant just past? Oh yes, and it's a bittersweet taste.

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me.

I've decided to take this unrequited love, and quietly put it away in a corner of my heart as a bittersweet page of my youth.

He also said, I suppose there are people who are so `lucky' that they are not touched by phantoms and are not troubled by fleeting memory and know not nostalgia and care not for the ache of the past and are spared the feather-hit of the sweet, sweet pain of the lost, and I am sorry for them-for to weep over what is gone is to have had something prove worth the weeping.

I envythe cup of coffeethat getsto kissyour sleepy lipsawakeevery cold andbitter morning.

Nothing in my life has ever felt so good, yet hurt so achingly bad.

L'oubli puissant habite sur ta bouche, Et le Léthé coule dans tes baisers.

I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Sentimental memories were like sugar-water icicles.

This is Nathan's mother," I said, wiping my eyes with the edge of Ainsley's blanket. "Yes, we've met," Eloise said. "You came to Nathan's wake." Daniel nodded. "Congratulations on your beautiful daughter. Kate..." She turned to me. "It was good to see you, deah.

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Now Eragon was free. No more would he and Saphira have to dodge soldiers, avoid towns, or hide who they were. It was a bittersweet realization, for the cost had been the loss of his entire world.

She often felt that she chased the ideal cup of coffee in her mind from table to table, the rich, thick, creamy coffee, spicy, bittersweet, that betrayed no hint of thinness or chemical flavoring, nothing less than total, fathomless devotion to the state of being itself. Every morning she pulled a delicate cup from its brass hook and filled it, hoping that it would be dark and deep and secret as a forest, and each morning it cooled too fast, had too much milk, stained the cup, made her nervous.

But many of women's body scars have a very different context, and thus an emotional power all their own. Stretch marks and Cesarean incisions from giving birth are very different from accident, war, and fight scars. They evoke courage without violence, strength without cruelty, and even so, they're far more likely to be worn with diffidence than bragging. That gives them a moving, bittersweet power, like seeing a room where a very emotional event in our lives once took place.

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

One of the bittersweet rewards of success is, in fact, that as companies become large, they literally lose the capability to enter small emerging markets. This disability is not because of a change in the resources within the companies—their resources typically are vast. Rather, it is because their values change.