Bitterly Quotes
106 Bitterly quotes by 93 unique authors
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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in…
— Heinrich Heine
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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of…
— Jessica Day George
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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so…
— Lionel Shriver
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I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.
— John Hodgman
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In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and…
— Diana Gabaldon
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
— Leonard Cohen
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They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as…
— C.S. Lewis
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But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together." I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish…
— Suzanne Collins
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Do not do that again," he said stiffly. "Don't kiss me back then," I retorted. He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I…
— Richelle Mead
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Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
— Paul Stewart
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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears-…
— Mervyn Peake
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I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I…
— Jack Kerouac
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Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing…
— Joseph Delaney
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Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Petta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby." There. He's done it again.
— Suzanne Collins
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Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming…
— Georgette Heyer
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Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them.…
— Gordon Korman
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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know…
— Lisa Kleypas
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
— Lawrence Durrell
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The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
— John Steinbeck
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Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
— Douglas Adams
Who Wrote These Bitterly Quotes
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