Bitter Quotes
-
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
-
I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.
-
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
-
You can either get bitter, or you can get better.
-
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
-
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
-
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
-
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
-
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
-
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
-
St. Agnes’ Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,And silent was the flock in woolly fold.
-
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
-
I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.
-
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
-
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
-
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun
-
The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
-
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
-
O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
-
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
-
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
-
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
-
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
-
For me, my first big heartbreak is actually sports-related. The team went out and got spanked on our home field. I'll never forget how I cried after the game, because I'd been denied the opportunity to help the team in the championship game. It was like the coach forgot what had gotten us there. So, I never got to hold the trophy or savor a state championship. And I'll never forget that first bitter heartbreak.
