Quotes About Sweeter

No death is sweeter than this, and no rose redder than the blood that flows.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

she'd once read a poem that said the unexpected moment was always sweeter.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another's cries of love.

It will be dark, And the shine of these small things sweeter than the face of Ishtar.

For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn't do so very much dancing. I had to work." He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder—not so cold.

The majority of the drinks popular at the turn of the nineteenth century were, by and large, sweeter than they would become over the next twenty years. Something else happened, though, in the last decades of the 1800s. Something momentous. Something that left us with a range of drinks that must now be considered the capos of the cocktail family: Vermouth became popular among the cocktailian bartenders of America.

The two of them playact with each other, pretending to be cordial, but only so it will make the final betrayal even sweeter.

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things.

In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning.

Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say." Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.

It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.

To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.