Bitter Quotes · Page 22

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

— Jan Peter Balkenende

When I was younger, I could be pretty bitter. I still have moments, but I think I've gotten pretty good at rejection.

— Jeremy Sisto

“There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.”

— Rawi Hage

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

— Albert Einstein

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in…

— Kathryn Stockett

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

— Anna Akhmatova

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

— John Desmond Bernal

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and…

— Thomas Hardy

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing…

— John Boyega

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --…

— R. D. Laing

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew…

— Monica

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do…

— Neil Gaiman

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get…

— Ernest Hemingway

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I…

— Anonymous

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a…

— Izaak Walton

I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and…

— Matthew Fox

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but…

— RuPaul

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,…

— Dean Koontz

I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s…

— Barack Obama

During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it.…

— Anonymous

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we,…

— Maxim Gorky

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

— George D. Prentice

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

— John Updike

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

— Max Lerner

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

— Marian Keyes

When life gives you trouble: you can get bitter or better. You can go under or you can go on.

— Nishan Panwar

Love, something sweet, something sour and often times something bitter.

— Bhabes Alvarez

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

— Moby

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

— Julie Burchill

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

— Aristotle

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

— Karch Kiraly

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

— Honore de Balzac

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

— Anonymous

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

— Buck Leonard