Bitterness Quotes

672 quotes by 507 authors

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you… — Joan Lunden
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. — Robert Menzies
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and… — Joyce Meyer
I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade… — Greg Norman
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. — Tatum O'Neal
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. — William Penn
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. — Edith Piaf
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much… — Richard Pryor
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it… — Paula Radcliffe
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. — Herbert Read
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. — Arthur Rimbaud
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should… — Christina Rossetti
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and… — Kevin Rudd
I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life. — Ja Rule
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and… — Sharon Salzberg
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. — William Shakespeare
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to… — Charles Stanley

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