Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some… — Henry David Thoreau
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. — Lech Walesa
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. — Lech Walesa
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. — Neale Donald Walsch
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. — Woodrow Wilson
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would… — Robert Wyatt
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm… — Emil Zatopek
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to… — Julian Baggini
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln… — William Shakespeare
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let… — H P Lovecraft
But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the… — William Carlos Williams
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
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 more experience you… — Rajneesh
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. — Marilynne Robinson
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. — Max Ehrmann
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold… — Philip Pullman
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's… — Erma Bombeck
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering… — Oscar Wilde
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it — Jodi Picoult
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I… — Stephen Crane
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what… — Malcolm X
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller

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