Bitter people Quote by Terry Goodkind

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and…

— Ian McEwan

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude…

— George Eliot

“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as…

— Phillip Pullman

“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you…

— George Orwell

“It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake…

— Edith Wharton

“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still…

— William Trevor

“She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require…

— John Hawkes

“Her country had never been aggressive, had never espoused violence, had never taken sides in the squabbles of others. She wondered how people could…

— Alexander McCall Smith