Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive… — Evelyn Underhill
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through… — Earl Warren
History -- its what those bitter old men write. — Jackie Kennedy
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light… — Madison Cawein
A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generationmy generationknows from four very bitter experiences.… — Gerald R. Ford
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no… — Orson Welles
Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a… — Theodore Roosevelt
One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat. — Anderson Silva
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both. — Grace Slick
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far… — H. L. Mencken
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. — Alphonse de Lamartine
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better. — Orrin Woodward
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come,… — Donn Moomaw
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. — St. Jerome
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one… — William Hazlitt
I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in… — Edward Thomas
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. — Erich Fromm
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be. — Lady Gaga

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