Bitter Quotes

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!

If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!

You could start a fire with the heat between you two. You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Eat bitter, taste sweet

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.