Bitterness Quotes
672 quotes by 501 authors
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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
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She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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
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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
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Bitterness Quotes
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