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Quotes About Bittersweet

If only it were possible to juicily belch up the life one's lived, chew it anew and gulp it down, and then once more to roll it with a fat, ox-like tongue, to squeeze from its eternal dregs the former sweetness of crisp grass, drunk with the morning dew and the bitterness of lilac leaves!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He dicho el nombre de ese bar lácteo que visité en una ocasión? Pues se llamaba nada menos que La reina frígida. Sonriendo con cierta tristeza, apodé a Lo Mi princesa frígida. Ella no comprendió esa melancólica broma.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
~ Graham Kerr
Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
~ Luellen Hoffman
Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
~ Scott Kelly
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
~ Cornelia Funke
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Alice knows everything about me, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.
~ Daniel Keyes
They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and bittersweet that life has to offer us - a stoical in the hedonism.
~ William Boyd
It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Beautiful as they are, these tidal places are often moody and strange. Sometimes you can feel the bittersweet tang of your mortality rubbing up against a beachhead of infinity
~ Christopher Camuto
Maybe we should acquire a taste for bittersweet, " said Reynie with a grin. Then everything would feel wonderful.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Maybe we should acquire a taste for bittersweet," said Reynie with a grin. "Then everything would feel wonderful.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
~ William Shakespeare
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
~ Herman Hesse
There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.
~ Holly Black
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
~ Paul Feig
parting is such a sweet sorrow
~ Unknown
Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn't had a long history.
~ Pawan Mishra
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
~ David Levithan
Because this is only going to get worse," she said. "So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it." "Get on with what?" "Life. In all its bittersweet glory.
~ David Levithan
Danny feels his somberness confirmed __ how else can one feel when surrounded by such a majority of ghosts? You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
~ David Levithan
Being overwhelmed by sadness and then realizing its just being pmsy is bittersweet...you know why...but you're still sad...and bleeding.
~ Unknown
Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations. Debra Evans, Heart and Home
~ Debra Evans