Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's… — Irvine Welsh
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and… — Paul Celan
For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take… — Jean Rhys
Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone. — Kim Harrison
Disappointment mixed with bitter acceptance flashed in her eyes. "Maybe you are real," she said. "It would require a dark side I don't have to… — Gena Showalter
When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better. — Donald Miller
Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core.… — Cameron Dokey
One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,… — James A. Baldwin
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me.… — Haruki Murakami
That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core… — Jennifer Estep
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first… — Winston Churchill
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred. — Amy Carmichael
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child.… — Catherynne M. Valente
Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the… — Henri Nouwen
Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.… — George Orwell
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.… — Dante Alighieri
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because… — Jodi Picoult
No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot… — Allen Ginsberg
I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost. — Jenny Lawson
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a… — Cormac McCarthy
Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints… — Oscar Wilde
I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being… — Chris Colfer
Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the… — James Carlos Blake
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. — George R. R. Martin

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