Bitter Quotes · Page 28

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

— Desiderius Erasmus

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

— Vladimir Putin

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

— Lane Kirkland

“You eat shit most your life, work, sweat, and bleed for anything you could get the rest of it, and you know…

— Kristen Ashley

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

— Erich Fromm

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

“And I had forgotten to get more Sweet’N Low, so I had to drink coffee as bitter as I am.”

— Meg Howrey

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either…

— Jean Rhys

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness…

— John Ruskin

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still…

— Harper Lee

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy…

— Charles Kuralt

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or…

— Barack Obama

There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of…

— William Shakespeare

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real…

— Francis Quarles

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are…

— Jodi Picoult

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable…

— Anonymous

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or…

— Anonymous

A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation…

— Gerald R. Ford

A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and…

— William Butler Yeats

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in…

— William Blake

But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime…

— Benjamin

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to…

— Kelli O'Hara

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

— Ellis Peters

You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win…

— Alyssa Edwards

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

— Jerry Bridges

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

— Bill Moyers

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

— Anonymous

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise

— Tom Hanks

Do not be bitter about my attitude cos I'm created to be imperfect being.

— Zorromastigophora

“O, what shall I be at fifty, If I am then alive, I find the world so bitter, When I am but…

— Rhoda Broughton

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

— Jeff Garcia

“How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

— Jodi Picoult

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

— Thiruvalluvar

Got time to make mistakes, bitter and the sweetness, I just love the taste.

— The Ready Sets

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

— Laini Taylor

Bitter Root' has all of the classic characters to get you invested in fantasy films.

— Jason Johnson