Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. — Franz Liszt
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,… — Crescent Dragonwagon
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The… — Paulo Coelho
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… — Rex Stout
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment. — H. H. Asquith
I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. — Merle Travis
Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in… — Louis MacNeice
Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will… — Jack White
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter. — Anna Akhmatova
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come when every other indication would say that hope was lost. Hope is never lost.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they… — Eudora Welty
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in… — Rick James
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And… — James Whitcomb Riley
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures… — Ivan Goncharov
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void. — Democritus
Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier. — Bill Hicks
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and… — Nick Hornby
I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I… — Larry Doby
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. — Lane Kirkland

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