Bitterness Quotations | Page 2

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

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.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?

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.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

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.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

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.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

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.

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.

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.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

Everybody wants to get into the act!

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Satire is focused bitterness.

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

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...

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

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.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

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.

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.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

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.

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

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.

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.