Bitter Quotes

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

Satire is focused bitterness.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

For this relief, much thanks

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.