Bitter Quotes · Page 19

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

— Kathleen Norris

“Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.”

— Claudy Conn

“A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”

— Kathryn Stockett

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

— Jenny Lawson

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

— William Arthur Ward

“Why do people who already have so much get bitter about those who have a little more?”

— Dalya Moon

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and…

— Carolina Kostner

“A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.”

— Toba Beta

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance…

— Alice Walker

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the…

— Leonard Cohen

“In English we say: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. In Naskarian we say: it's not…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreams captured my attention so completely, that I didn't feel the…

— Vijaya Gowrisankar

Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's…

— Jeffrey Rosen

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or…

— William Butler Yeats

“Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.”

— Benjamin Hoff

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the…

— Jack Kerouac

She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming…

— Isaac Marion

The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came…

— Billy Crystal

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause…

— Woodrow Wilson

In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to.…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake.…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…

— Nick Hornby

I can list at least 20-30 movies that I've lost. But it didn't make me bitter.

— Mallika Sherawat

While the forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster

— Anonymous

“Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.”

— Blair Richmond

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am…

— Alfred the Great

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

— Plautus

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

— Ambrose Bierce

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

— George Gissing

Once you have tasted the light of living the darkness somehow seems even more bitter when you go back to it.

— Anonymous

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

— Franz Liszt

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

— James A. Baldwin

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

— Bill Hicks

“I’ve fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for…

— Emily Brontë

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

— Alfred Edersheim

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

— Erwin W. Lutzer