Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

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

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.

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

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

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.

Satire is focused bitterness.

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

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

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

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

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

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.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.