Bitter Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much.…

— Chaim Weizmann

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

— Vita Sackville-West

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

— Jon Ronson

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

— William Morris

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our…

— Emma Donoghue

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets…

— Henry Miller

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness,…

— Elizabeth Scott

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a…

— Cynthia Heimel

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry.…

— Cameron Stracher

“On the other hand, the great helpless mass of the population, the people of the abyss, was sinking into a brutish apathy of content…

— Jack London

“I felt we were "falling through the cracks;” society’s anonymous victims who would live and die in unacknowledged misery...”

— Misty Griffin