Bitter Quotes

First there sour then there sweet

— Anonymous

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

— William Shakespeare

Don't be bitter just get better!

— Anonymous

“Get off of the bitter bus!”

— Lauren Kramer

After bitterness comes the sweet.

— Anonymous

Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

— Seth Rollins

“Be angry. But don't be bitter.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Soon, the pain will be over!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.”

— Jonathan Renshaw

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

— Anna Akhmatova

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

— Lord Byron

“Sweet revenge always turns bitter eventually.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Even the most bitter fruit has sugar in it.”

— Terry A O'Neal

Bad times can make you bitter or better.

— John Wooden

“Every poison is not bitter but definitely they all kill.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I get the kind of money that make a broke bitch bitter.

— Nicki Minaj

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

— Tobias Wolff

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

— Greta Garbo

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

— Danny Strong

“It is not bitter to be better to the boss rather than butter up a boss which is, in reality, bitter.”

— Dr Sivakumar Gowder

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

— Jewish Proverb

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

— Denis Diderot

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

— Richard Sibbes

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

— Helen Hunt

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man…

— Theodore Roethke

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight…

— Virginia Woolf

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand…

— Brother Lawrence

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except…

— Abraham Lincoln

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried,…

— Stephen Sondheim

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the…

— Amiri Baraka

Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring…

— Malcolm X

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled…

— Nick Clegg

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful…

— George R. R. Martin

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work…

— Stephen Jay Gould

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness…

— Thomas Sowell

“There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it…

— Mitch Albom

Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,…

— Alexander MacLaren

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I…

— Teddy Thompson