Bitter Quotes
1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
— Will Durant
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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bitter is a bad way to live!
— Margaret Haddix
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I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on…
— Karen Kingsbury
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The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business…
— Noam Chomsky
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You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once…
— Jennifer Estep
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another…
— Cormac McCarthy
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For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.
— William Shakespeare
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Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
— Jim Butcher
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Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to…
— Nick Hornby
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I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I…
— Jack Kerouac
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I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're…
— Douglas Coupland
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In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and…
— Justin Cronin
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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to…
— Per Petterson
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Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
— David Clement-Davies
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
— Frederick Buechner
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
— Alexandre Dumas
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung…
— Cassandra Clare
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He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable…
— Hermann Hesse
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.
— Johnny Cash
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He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
— Jamie Ford
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Drink it,” I told her. “It’s good for what ails you. Caffeine and sugar. I don’t drink it, so I ran over to your house…
— Patricia Briggs
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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear,…
— Lewis Carroll
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