Bittersweet Quotes

He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time.

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

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

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.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

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.

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

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.

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

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.

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.

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.