Bitter Quotes

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

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

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.