Bitter Quotes · Page 30

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

— Jan Struther

“And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down…

— Jennifer Echols

“...It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such…

— Augustine of Hippo

I don't want to sound bitter about 'Sanford and Son.' I'm not. It threw me into stardom. It made me wealthy.

— Demond Wilson

“If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Don't be bitter about Exes or people you used to talk. Take what you learned about yourself and become a better person..

— Ritu Ghatourey

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

— Jose Rizal

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

— Rumi

I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if…

— Marian Keyes

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment...…

— Herbert Hoover

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

— Cynthia Lord

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products…

— George Leonard

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…

— George Gissing

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and…

— Henry Miller

“Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address…

— David Wong

“When I lived in New York and went to Chinatown, I learned that these flavors and their meanings were actually a foundation…

— Judith Fertig

God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights…

— Malcolm Lowry

This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can,…

— John O'Donohue

Karma is the most bitter pill to swallow. And the unpleasant after taste it leaves in your mouth is the receipt -…

— Geraldine Vermaak

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with…

— Anonymous

The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its…

— Charles Robert Maturin

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not…

— Karl Rahner

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

— Camille Claudel

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

— Nick Vujicic

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”

— Suzy Kassem

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

— Jim Butcher

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

— Ricky Hatton

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

— Berthold Auerbach

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to…

— Hafez

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more…

— Y. C. James Yen

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again…

— Maya Angelou

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

— Alfred Schnittke

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

— Neil Gaiman

I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda…

— Kiersten White

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

— Lisa Kleypas

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

— Taylor Swift

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

— Peyton Manning