Bitterness Quotes

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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. — Zora Neale Hurston
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from… — Marjane Satrapi
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of… — Cormac McCarthy
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but… — Erich Maria Remarque
You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one… — Joel Osteen
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. — Madeleine L'Engle
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life,… — Rick Warren
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you… — Elizabeth Moon
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger;… — Zane Grey
There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness. — Marc Maron
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better… — Nicole Krauss
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the… — Richard Russo
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of… — Paul Valery
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at… — Paulo Coelho
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by… — Jacqueline Carey

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