Bittersweet Quotes
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"I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time."
"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive."
"Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought."
"Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember."
"i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June."
"Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery."
"I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did."
"I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never seen anything more beautiful. Green flashed before my eyes; trees, leaves and grass, glittering with raindrops, the tears of angels weeping with sadness and joy; green, the colour of love, to remind me why I'm here."
"We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved."
"A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollarThey're worth so much more after I'm a gonerAnd maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'Funny when you're dead how people start listenin"
"The sharp knife of a short life, wellI've had, just enough time."
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
"You are the illness I will never cure. You are the poem I will never write. You are the thought I will never finish. You are the text I will never read."
"Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?"
"Victory is always bittersweet."
"I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning."
"...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief."
Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
"I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss."
"We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account."
"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned."
"leave me some musicthat’s chocolate for the heart."
"We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread."
"He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time."
"Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you."
"I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it."
"I never expected to fall in love. I never expected to float or fall a thousand feet and create the crevice I called my life. But the thing with crevices, there’s always a top and always a bottom. And the feeling of appreciation when you look from the top and understand how fast it can all come crashing down — it’s more than beautiful and more than words could ever explain."
"We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally."
"I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things."
"I ain’t scared to lend a handI ain’t scared to clench it either"
"But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before."
"I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right."
"I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up."
"He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in this very second. I appreciate, cherish, and thank him for it; and I will for this life and into any life that may come."
"I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve."
"Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, each far too little and yet too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer, with that bittersweet release lingering in the doorway, but never quite being sent all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place.” ― Connie Kerbs"
"I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again."
"Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset."
"The machines of this place are failing, and the woman and I are here all alone. The perpetual motion engine, as brilliant and beautiful as it is, is running down—nothing lasts forever. But before this little world falls out of the sky there still might be time enough for redemption. There is still time for me to say the words that I should have had the courage to say at the beginning.There is still time, perhaps, for one more miracle.Hello, Miranda."
"And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive."
"Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever."
"She said that everything that disappeared from our side went over to theirs, where they kept living normal lives, waiting for the things still lingering with us to join them, and make the world whole once more."
"Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still."
"It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.And then he did."
"He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two."
"my own chocolate center has filled up with poison,the roses he gave me all twisted black"
"There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time."
"And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be"
"Life at best is bittersweet."
"He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else -- he can smell the boy's own scent, something bittersweet."
"If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki"
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