Bitterness Quotes

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

I grow old on my bitterness.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.