“What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Bitter things are told by true people because people who fake wont say it ¦..they keep pretending to bevery nice friend who… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out…In great grief,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind.… — Vusi Mahlasela Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God.… — Heather Mercer Copy Share Image
“ But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference…and I well know that taste,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet… — Horace Copy Share Image
Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of.… — Donn Moomaw Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
![“I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.” quote by Cynthia Ozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/005/cynthia-ozick-2945_actor_i-was-so-mad-at-my-agent-i-had-polished_340246.jpg)
