Bitterness Quotes

672 quotes by 507 authors

â€¦* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting… — Sylvia Plath
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. — Stephen King
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product… — Emma Forrest
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. — Alain de Botton
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be… — Soren Kierkegaard
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.… — Stephen Baxter
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. — Jack Kerouac
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Hunting humans for sport? Eating them?" the bitterness in his voice cut through me. "Yeah, I caught that part." "That doesn't have anything to do… — Kelley Armstrong
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved… — Anne Rice
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who… — Emily Giffin
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't… — Nicholas Sparks
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.… — Angela Carter
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone. — Florence Nightingale
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my motherâ€”even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.… — Cheryl Strayed

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