Bitter Quotes

• 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

• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• 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

• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before - a bad game or my two previous divorces - I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep - couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Crazy
  • Sleep
  • Anxiety

• And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Happy
  • Memories
  • Bitter

• No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Art
  • Fate
  • Adversity

• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Brave

• After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Trying
  • Gun
  • Freak

• Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bitter

• We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Blessing
  • Bitter
  • Handicaps

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

  

  Chanakya
  • Truth
  • Friendship
  • Bitter

• The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

  

  William Cowper
  • May
  • Sweet
  • Flower

• It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Emotional

• Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Reality
  • Glasses
  • Demon

• Der Verstandesmensch verhöhnt nichts so bitter als den Edelmut, dessen er sich nicht fähig fühlt.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Bitter

• Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Sweet
  • Fruit
  • Core

• I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Bitter

• Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Bitter

• Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, waisted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Spring

• When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Cool
  • Couple
  • Awesome

• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Church

• It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

  

  John Bolton
  • Bitter

• I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

  

  Denis Leary
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

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