Top 111 Bittersweet Quotes & Sayings

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

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.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

When you're so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else's anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets you going.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.

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.

Mother's Day is a bittersweet day for many of us. We all have mothers, but some of us have lost them.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

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.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

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.

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

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.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

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.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Life at best is bittersweet.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

Performing my father's songs at the Led Zeppelin O2 reunion concert in 2007 was an honor that I will forever remember as one of the most bittersweet, yet greatest nights of my life.

In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

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.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.