Bitterness Quotes
672 quotes by 501 authors
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Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness…
— Marin Mersenne
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Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from…
— Billy Graham
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
— Aristotle
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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to…
— Aristotle
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The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left
— Max Lucado
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It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your…
— Rick Warren
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity…
— Watchman Nee
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The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be…
— Albert Camus
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Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
— Ahmed Kathrada
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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness…
— Maya Angelou
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The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and…
— Desmond Tutu
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To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed…
— Charlie Chaplin
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It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be…
— Thelma Wells
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The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a…
— John of Kronstadt
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Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
— Tony Evans
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Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Bitterness Quotes
501 authors contributed a total of 672 Bitterness Quotes, led by these top contributors: