Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in… — Thomas Wolfe
For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time — Homer
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters… — Michael Ende
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,… — Khalil Gibran
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is… — Gregory Maguire
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not… — Charles Frazier
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why… — Marcus Aurelius
It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end. — Albert Camus
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s… — Barack Obama
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our… — Hermann Hesse
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments! — Nicholas A. Basbanes
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present… — Karl Rahner
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known… — Victor Hugo
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. — Unknown Author
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely… — Ann Brashares
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant… — Ernest Shackleton
As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter… — Joseph Heller
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the… — Isaac Asimov
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his… — Wilfred Owen
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings — Leonard Cohen
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. — Aleister Crowley

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