Famous quotes containing the word sweeter:
“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
And death is no evil.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)