Bittersweetness Quotes

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Better the last smile than the first laughter.