Bitter Quotes

• I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Music
  • Why
  • American

• I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Bitter

• It’s hard to recover. You become not so innocent. You become, in a way, more sophisticated, which I think you shouldn’t. We should all have more simple happiness . . . . You become bitter.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Simple
  • Innocent
  • Bitter

• I love playing the bitter guy.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Guy
  • Bitter

• Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!

  

  Caroline Wells Healey Dall
  • Thoughts
  • Hours
  • Needle

• I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • May
  • Angry
  • Bitter

• I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Live
  • May
  • Help

• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Heartbreaking

• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wife
  • Bitter

• Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Bitter
  • Paradise

• How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Bitter

• I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

  

  Jim Crace
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Live
  • Women

• I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Women
  • Value
  • Bitter

• The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Sweet

• It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Bitter
  • Get Better

• I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Used

• Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Beautiful
  • Realizing
  • Cynical

• When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Happens

• Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Heart
  • Trouble
  • Bitter

• What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

  

  George Muller
  • World
  • Service
  • Satan

• Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

  

  Leo Sayer
  • Experience
  • Sometimes
  • Learned

• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Leaving

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