Bitterness Quotes

672 quotes by 507 authors

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us. — Alana Stewart
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some… — Henry David Thoreau
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. — Lech Walesa
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. — Lech Walesa
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would… — Robert Wyatt
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm… — Emil Zatopek
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you… — Rajneesh
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection… — John Ralston Saul
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why… — Marcus Aurelius
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it… — Virginia Woolf
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this… — Richard Russo
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave… — William Arthur Ward
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. — Joseph Heller

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