Sweetness – Quotes

They who are sad

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears. Euripides

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold. Erin Morgenstern

I stood looking over

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. Emily St. John Mandel

Enough is so vast

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs. Emily Dickinson

It was a perfect

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. Ellen Glasgow

When we descend all

When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self – the … Read more

I lifted the white

I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of … Read more

Doing nothing is opting

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness…Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through. Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have never quite

I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely. Eliza Lynn Linton

As well as any

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Edward Thomas