Bitterest Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their… — Charles Caleb Colton
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is… — Confucius
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. — Thomas Jefferson
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. — Daniel Handler
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first… — Louise Brooks
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. — Pablo Neruda
Thatâ€™s why; heâ€™s worried about how his life is turning out, and heâ€™s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all — Nick Hornby
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will… — Francois Fenelon
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized… — James A. Baldwin
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A J P Taylor
Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your… — John of Kronstadt
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the… — Richard Jefferies
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third… — Confucius

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