Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

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.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

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.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

There is no pleasure without a tincture 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.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

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

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

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Acid filled Sara’s mouth. It wasn’t fair. That’s what Sara wanted to say. To scream at the top of her lungs. It just wasn’t fair. Lena wasn’t strong. She would bend, not break. She would recover from this tragedy the same easy way she recovered from every other tragedy before. Even if she lost Jared, Lena would always know what it felt like to have his child growing inside of her. She could always hold her baby’s hand and think of holding Jared’s. She could see her child laugh and learn and grow and play sports and do school projects and graduate from college and Lena would always, always remember her husband. She would see Jared in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. On her deathbed, she would find peace in the knowledge that they had made something beautiful together. That even in death, they would both go on living. “Sara,” Faith said. “What’s happening here?” Sara wiped her eyes, angry that she was back in the same dark place she’d started at this morning. “Why does everything come so damn easy to her?” She struggled to speak. Her throat clenched around every word that wanted to come out of her mouth. “Everything just opens up, and she always walks through unscathed and—” Sara had to stop for breath. “It’s just so easy for her. She always has it so goddamn easy.

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

A grateful heart is better than a bitter soul.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Anger and Bitterness go hand in hand like a bad love affair, just breeding more of the same. So LET THEM GO!!!

An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.