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Bittersweet Quotes

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

"Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

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

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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.

"Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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

Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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

Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.161, Random House