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Bitter Quotes - Page 2

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

"Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press

But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

The Black Riders and Other Lines "In the Desert" l. 1 (1895)

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.199, Simon and Schuster