Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too… — Stephenie Meyer
The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs… — Cormac McCarthy
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to… — Oscar Wilde
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't… — Guy Gavriel Kay
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what… — Ann Brashares
We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman… — Paulo Coelho
Eat bitter, taste sweet — Rick Riordan
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end… — Susanna Kearsley
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives… — Viktor E. Frankl
Don’t I have a choice in this?” But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure… — Neal Shusterman
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. — Barbara Kingsolver
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept.… — Rick Riordan
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. — Lisa Kleypas
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly… — Ann Voskamp
I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my… — Elizabeth Scott
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of… — Baroness Orczy
In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away,… — Laini Taylor
There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. — Erwin W. Lutzer
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak. — Sarah Dessen
But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately.… — Brandon Sanderson
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see… — Katherine Dunn
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter… — Anna Akhmatova
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. — William Shakespeare

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