Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone,… — Bertolt Brecht
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. — Neil Kinnock
Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into… — Pema Chodron
Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?… — Albert Einstein
As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day… — Tara Brach
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able… — Unknown Author
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be… — Thomas Burnet
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… — Alexander Hamilton
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the… — Oscar Wilde
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and… — Giuseppe Mazzini
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a… — John Burroughs
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and… — Leon Brown
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery… — John Ruskin
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain… — William Blake
If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you — Terry Waite
Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. — Tahir Shah
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how… — Sue Grafton
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the… — Garrett Hedlund
A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned. — Albert Einstein
Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift… — Bruce C. Hafen
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How… — Unknown Author
You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you… — Yvette Nicole Brown

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