Bitterness Quotes
672 quotes by 507 authors
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— Francis Bacon
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
— Francis Bacon
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
— Joseph Addison
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There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
— Allen Boyd
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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter…
— Jo Brand
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make…
— Jo Brand
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
— Terry Brooks
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
— Robert Burton
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
— Albert Camus
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
— Dante Alighieri
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
— Maya Angelou
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Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be…
— Zig Ziglar
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of…
— Vilayat Inayat Khan
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is…
— Horace
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It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,…
— Alain de Botton
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
— F B Meyer
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