Bitterness Quotes

672 quotes by 501 authors

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,… — Virginia Woolf
She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present… — Victor Hugo
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness… — Corrie Ten Boom
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees â€“ And I found her bitter â€“ And I reviled her. — Arthur Rimbaud
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money,… — Abraham Verghese
The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So… — Luke Davies
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and… — Lynn Austin
A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out… — Paulo Coelho
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone… — Haruki Murakami
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. — Barbara Kingsolver
Thereâ€™s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. — Erwin W. Lutzer
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no… — John Steinbeck
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more… — Ann Voskamp
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the… — James A. Baldwin
Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. — Rick Warren
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events… — Dean Koontz

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