No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the…

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…

— Maya Angelou

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

— Isabella Bird

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

— Arthur Rimbaud

“What?" I ask. I try not to get snappy with her. She hasn't really done anything wrong. Falling in love with Turner isn't a…

— C.M. Stunich

“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose’s scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. —Francis…

— Ann Rule

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte

“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret…

— Nina LaCour

Forgiving someone who've done you wrong or didn't treat you right could mean that you are allowing yourself to end up away from bitterness.

— April T Pascua

You cannot be inspired if you are surrounded with negativity, open the door and step into the inspirational garden of nature. Do not let…

— Kemmy Nola

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…

— Lena Horne

Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception…

— Richard Walters

Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

— Pope Francis

“Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how bitterness tastes.”

— Rin Chupeco

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the…

— Rohinton Mistry

Be sure there is something waiting for you after much patience, to astonish you to a degree, that you forget the bitterness of the…

— Ritu Ghatourey