Bittersweet Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

— Deepak Chopra

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

— Pierre Corneille

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

— Lawrence Welk

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

— Adrienne Rich

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

— George Eliot

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley