Top 100 Bitter Bitter Quotes
#1. What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!
George Muller
#2. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
Oscar Wilde
#3. But no, I came by these feelings honestly. And I don't accept bitter. Wounded, yes. Traumatized, sure. Grieving, okay. Anything other than bitter. I put too much work in to be callously tossed aside as bitter. Bitter is for someone who hasn't earned it.
Samantha Irby
#5. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.
Dennis E. Adonis
#6. 90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
Danny Dyer
#7. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.
Ford Madox Ford
#8. And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator of adolescence. The bitter, voice-over voice.
Joanna Pearson
#9. That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing; I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
Mark Bradford
#12. The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner
#14. Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.
James Stephens
#15. There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
Robert Browning
#16. It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
Charles Kuralt
#17. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.
Annie Proulx
#18. He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.
Donald Miller
#19. Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#20. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.
Dana Marton
#21. We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.
Michael Mosley
#22. God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
Jacques Rigaut
#23. Danni was his reward for all the bullshit he'd gone through, the torture, the anger,
hatred and the bitter loneliness. She was going to be the band-aid for his tortured
soul.
R.L. Mathewson
#24. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
#25. I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.
Edward Dmytryk
#27. I love you; I love you and I don't care that you're my sister; don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don't know how to be without you.
Cassandra Clare
#28. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.
Joseph Heller
#31. You taste like the last drop of whiskey
at 3 am
after a lousy day
like the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a desk
hot and bitter
like the burning at the back of the throat
after the first cigarette
You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake.
Malak El Halabi
#32. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...
Jennifer Estep
#33. Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Get some rest. Kalr will bring supper to your quarters. Things will seem better after you've eaten and slept." "Really?" she asked. Bitter and challenging. "Well, not necessarily," I admitted. "But it's easier to deal with things when you've had some rest and some breakfast.
Ann Leckie
#35. Death and life were not
Till man made up the whole,
Made lock, stock and barrel
Out of his bitter soul
William Butler Yeats
#36. Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.
Blair Richmond
#37. Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature
Sunday Adelaja
#38. What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
Alcuin
#39. I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.
Pete Townshend
#40. A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
H.L. Mencken
#41. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.
Patrick Rothfuss
#42. God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.
Tony Evans
#43. Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.
Lisa Kleypas
#44. The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
Vladimir Putin
#45. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.
Peter Dinklage
#46. In the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart ... It's motto is
" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
Oswald Chambers
#47. I am BETTER everyday because I don't allow BITTER people a chance to LITTER my thought factory with their toxic MATTER. I am a SETTER, a goal GETTER&the MASTER of my game
Bayode Ojo
#48. I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#49. Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.
John Burroughs
#50. Sometimes it is the sharp contrasts in life, the bitter and the sweet; things not working out as planned, relationships falling apart, losing your loved ones - these are the things that shake you and make you appreciate life, see the good in it and love anew the people around you.
Amy Passantino
#51. This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then - it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#52. I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars ... I'm not bitter at all ...
Bill Bailey
#53. The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
Du Fu
#54. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
#55. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
#56. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.
Lindsey Leavitt
#57. Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin Woodward
#58. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#59. People fail all the time, it's what we're made to do. We all have moments of fear and weakness, we all stumble on rocks of bitter jealousy.
Melody Grace
#60. Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
Sima Qian
#61. Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#62. Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?
Oswald Chambers
#63. It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
Albert Camus
#64. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.
Jessica Fortunato
#65. The beat of her heart, the slow burning away ... of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
Bruce Springsteen
#66. The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar
Joseph Conrad
#68. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
George R R Martin
#69. Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?
Anthony Trollope
#71. Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
Clay Aiken
#73. 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you
Oscar Wilde
#75. I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.
Peter Cameron
#76. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
Bil Keane
#78. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.
Marianne Fredriksson
#80. How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#81. In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise
Tom Hanks
#82. He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.
Georgi Vladimov
#84. We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understand
and recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet ...
I. Alan Appt
#85. And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."
Mike Pesca
#86. It made me comfortable. It was a house where you could put your feet up and drink French champagne or Ballarat Bitter according to your mood.
Peter Carey
#87. I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
Merle Travis
#88. It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings.
M.H. Rakib
#89. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#90. There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!
Bram Stoker
#91. But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
Earth's might decays, the might of men decays,
Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes,
There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend,
Or city and city; be it soon or late,
Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.
Sophocles
#92. The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
Democritus
#93. Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
Sukarno
#94. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.
James Joyce
#95. I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Robert Wyatt
#96. Revenge can be bitter sweet, but if you sit back and watch, karma can be pure entertainment
Narendra Nekkanti
#97. Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.
Belle Starr
#98. If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
Richard Pryor
#99. What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...
Brian D. McLaren
#100. Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
Marilynne Robinson
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