Bitterness famous quotes
05-24-2025
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
-- Alain de Botton -
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
-- Alana Stewart -
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
-- Allen Boyd -
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
-- Andy Rooney -
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
-- Apolo Ohno -
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.
-- Barnabas -
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
-- Bertrand Russell -
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
-- Betty MacDonald -
We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.
-- Brody Dalle -
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.
-- Carl Jung -
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
-- Dorothy Day -
Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.
-- Edmond Rostand -
old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.
-- Eric Hoffer -
There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
-- F.B. Meyer -
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
-- George Gissing -
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips -
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
-- Herbert Read -
Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
-- Holly Near -
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
-- Huineng -
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
-- Jack Kerouac -
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
-- James Broughton -
Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
-- James Richardson -
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.
-- Javad Alizadeh -
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
-- Jerry Bridges -
You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.
-- Jim Goad -
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
-- Joan Crawford -
There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.
-- Joan Slonczewski -
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.
-- Joanne Greenberg -
Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.
-- John Bevere -
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
-- John Locke -
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
-- John Owen -
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
-- Lech Walesa -
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
-- Lech Walesa -
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
-- Lena Horne -
Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.
-- Leon Brown -
The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.
-- Lewis B. Smedes -
The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.
-- Luke Davies -
Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.
-- M. J. Ryan -
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
-- M. Scott Peck -
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.
-- Marc Maron -
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.
-- Mariama Bâ -
Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.
-- Marin Mersenne -
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
-- Marjane Satrapi -
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
-- Mark Kurlansky -
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
-- Maurice Jarre -
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.
-- Moses ibn Ezra -
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
-- Myrtle Reed -
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.
-- Omar Suleiman -
I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.
-- Patricia A. McKillip -
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.
-- Paul Celan -
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them...
-- Paul Klee -
Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
-- Petrarch -
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
-- Plautus -
Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
-- Pope Francis -
Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.
-- Rachel Renée Russell -
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
-- Rebecca Stead -
The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.
-- Richard L. Evans -
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
-- Richard Pryor -
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
-- Robert Byrd -
Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
-- Ruben Papian -
Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo -
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
-- Sara Teasdale
