Bitterness Quotes - Page 5

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.