Bittersweet Quotes

I was raped by a doctor ... which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. (Sarah Silverman)
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. View quote
Tim Burton
In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
Life at best is bittersweet. View quote
Jack Kirby
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. View quote
J. Lynn
People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me. View quote
Tate Taylor
It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. View quote
Yakov Smirnoff
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
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. View quote
Hermann Hesse
In the desert, initially, everywhere is like everywhere else-sky, sand, mountains. So far, this was the extent of what I'd seen in my involuntary roost. Then the day began to ebb, the world turned to topaz and gold, and the color of the sky seemed to sink away into the disc of the sun. I found I really could touch the beauty of it then, as I had touched its beauty so long ago when I was free to travel where I wished, and the city still owned me. Now, tinged with my sorrow, the loveliness was bittersweet, but strong as wine. View quote
Tanith Lee
What's left is only bittersweet For the rest of my life, admitting the best is behind me Now I'm drunk and afraid Wishing the world would go away What's the point of singing songs If they'll never even hear you? (Sufjan Stevens)
It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling. View quote
Will Smith
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. No wonder it costs so much. View quote
Sarah Vowell
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. View quote
Wentworth Miller
On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix. View quote
Marie Lu
There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. View quote
Bruno Mars
This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world. View quote
Justin Cronin
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too. View quote
Luanne Rice
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. View quote
Paul Feig
So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you. View quote
Cathy Rigby
I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily. (Gina McKee)
There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake. View quote
Jacob Latimore
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor. View quote
Nile Rodgers
I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins. View quote
Stockard Channing
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. View quote
Wil S. Hylton