Bitter Quotes

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

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

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.