Bitter Quotes

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.