Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

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.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

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

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.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

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

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

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

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