Embitters Quotes

#1. Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him,

Matthew Henry

#2. Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

John Flavel

#3. Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#4. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.

Susan Sontag

#5. Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc De Clapiers

#6. Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone

#7. What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

Anita Baker

#10. If it turns out that there is a God ... the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

#11. He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

Maximus The Confessor

#12. Fall in light, grow in light.

Jeff Buckley

#13. All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

Barton Gellman

#14. The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

George Henry Lewes

#15. An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way.

David Mitchell