Bitter Quotes

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

Bad times can make you bitter or better.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.