Top 1200 Bitter Sweet Quotes & Sayings

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Life is just to sweet to be bitter.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Eat bitter, taste sweet

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet!

Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

Sometimes I've been to cryin' for unborn children That might have made me complete But I, I took the sweet life and never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that cost too much to be free Hey lady, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.

And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.