Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time.… — Abraham Lincoln
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. — Janet Fitch
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest… — J D Salinger
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our… — Mahatma Gandhi
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness… — Amy Tan
Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a… — Libba Bray
Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to… — Betty Smith
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take… — Rudyard Kipling
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and… — Libba Bray
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had… — Daniel Handler
The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words… — Neil Gaiman
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth… — Christopher Moore
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar — James St. James
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came… — Ursula K. Le Guin
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which… — Leonard Cohen
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may… — Thomas Ligotti
Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and… — R.J. Ellory
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .… — Marilynne Robinson
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her… — Cassandra Clare
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread… — Robin McKinley
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. — Stephen Chbosky
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of… — Janet Fitch

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