Bitter Quotes - Page 9

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.