Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the… — Amelia Earhart
People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by… — James A. Baldwin
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until… — William Butler Yeats
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem… — Susan J. Douglas
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's… — Barack Obama
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. — Khalil Gibran
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come… — Pablo Neruda
thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. — William Shakespeare
Life is just to sweet to be bitter. — Kris Carr
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about… — Robin McKinley
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — T.H. White
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy… — Theodore Roosevelt
You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality — Mark Twain
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll… — Maya Angelou
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. — Charlotte Bronte
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and… — George Eliot

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