Bitter Quotes · Page 5

The wife, or bitter half.

— Ambrose Bierce

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit!..

— Anonymous

Don't get bitter, just get better.

— Justin Johnson

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

— Muhammad

You have to taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet.

— Nishan Panwar

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

— Ovid

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

— Voltaire

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

— Michelle Sagara

“Bitter or better; the difference is in one letter.”

— shyleen Victoria Baril

Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.

— Jamie Magee

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

— Richard Ashcroft

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

— Rumi

“I'm so bitter right now that if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse showed up I'd give them directions.”

— Whiskey Britches

Don't be bitter about your past. Just do all that you can to make your present and future better.

— Anonymous

“The bitter truth is that most people are not into you; they're into what you have.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

— John Dryden

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate…

— Stephen Crane

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God.…

— Heather Mercer

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as…

— Cynthia Ozick

“　But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference…and I well know that taste,…

— Anonymous

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

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

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry…

— Johnny Cash

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small…

— Aristotle

Michael, from 'Six Dance Lessons...' He was somebody who had a lot of self-loathing; being a gay man who lost his family…

— Cheyenne Jackson

How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of…

— Anna Akhmatova

“A cloud began to cover the sun slowly, wholly, shadowing the bay in deeper green. It lay beneath him, a bowl of…

— James Joyce

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values…

— Elton John

“Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter.…

— Mark Helprin

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United…

— Walter Cronkite

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause…

— B. R. Ambedkar

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

— Jo Stafford

Forbidden fruit is always so tempting

— Anonymous

“Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

— Thomas Watson

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

— Jose Marti

Don't criticize what you don't understand.

— Anonymous

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

— Juliana Hatfield

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

— Thomas Watson