Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Revenge is the most destructive emotion. Know that retribution against someone who has hurt you will not neutralise the bitterness of your… — Walter Mikac Copy Share Image
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your… — Andrew Matthews Copy Share Image
Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I'm sick of that, I said. Young, young, young, that's what I get, all day, everyday. But I know your secret…You're all… — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. “It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
“To tell you it will go away would be a lie. It will never go away. But, if you live long enough,… — Eli Brown Copy Share Image
The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all . When some members of the dominant group, particularly… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I… — Andrew Fastow Copy Share Image
You only look at far places while I am right here, you know if you'd only turn your head just a little,… — Dream Of Doll Copy Share Image
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Do…you…have…a…hard…time…finding…Steve’s dick?” she enunciated, enjoying Mary’s extreme discomfort. “He’s big as a fuckin’ house so I imagine it might be a bit… — A.T. Hicks Copy Share Image
Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image