Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a… — David Wong
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept… — Margaret Mitchell
Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling. — Michelle Sagara
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was… — Dante Alighieri
Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade,… — Cornelia Funke
I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. — Louisa May Alcott
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who… — Alexandre Dumas
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. — John Steinbeck
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,… — Virginia Woolf
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off… — Dorothy Parker
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse — Thornton Wilder
Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn’t strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment… — Jennifer Estep
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room.… — Stephenie Meyer
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to… — Thornton Wilder
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her. — Arthur Rimbaud
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her,… — Daphne du Maurier
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of… — Hermann Hesse
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history. — Lisa Kleypas
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece… — Jodi Picoult
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is… — R C Sproul
Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter. — Cassandra Clare
Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss,… — Ellen Hopkins
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall… — Neil Gaiman

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