Best 376 quotes in «bitter quotes» category

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.

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

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.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

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

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

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

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

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

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

One of the last times that we played in the area before I wrote "Allentown," I remember a guy coming up to us and saying, "You're never coming back here." I said, "Why do you say that?" He said, "Well, you're probably gonna become a big star. Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here." And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, "Well, I'm coming back, no matter what.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

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

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

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

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

That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.