Bitterness Quote by Francis Bacon

“While he was growing up everyone kept telling him he was going to turn professional, and he believed them so intensely that when he…

— Fredrik Backman

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

— Major Taylor

“For I have learned that bitterness is the only way I can allow you to destroy the beautiful work that God has done in…

— Tom Kizzia

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into…

— Baltasar Gracian

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was…

— Thomas Hardy

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God,…

— Paul David Tripp

“A flavor...what do you think, old madman, what do you think? That if you find a lost flavor you will eradicate decades of misunderstanding…

— Muriel Barbery

“Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.”

— Carson McCullers

“The truth is, most wisdom is embittering. The task of the wise person cannot be to pretend with false naiveté that every moment is…

— Philip Lopate