Top 100 Quotes About Bitter
#1. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
#2. I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
Gayle Forman
#3. How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.
Max Lucado
#4. I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
Robert Byrd
#5. People think that forgiveness is for the person who wronged you, but it's not. Because when we allow things to bottle up inside of us and we don't release it, or forgive the people who may have caused hurt to come in our lives, we just become bitter. And God can't use bitter people.
Vanessa Miller
#6. Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
Jerry Bridges
#7. I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
Alfred Schnittke
#8. There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.
Simon R. Green
#9. Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid
#10. A certain connoisseurship of taste, a mark of how you deal with the world, is the ability to relish the bitter, to crave it even, the way you do the sweet.
Stephanie Danler
#11. [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
Aeschylus
#12. Do not faint; the wicked may hold the bitter cup to your head, but God mixeth it, and there is no poison in it. They strike, but God moves the rod; Shimei curseth, but it is because the Lord bids him.
Samuel Rutherford
#13. I discovered that we liked each other. But I was fearful of giving free rein to my emotions. Fearful that all those emotions and longings I suppressed would spill forth, rendering me bitter and cruel.
Jacqueline Carey
#14. was like a crystal bowl filled with warm kettle corn. But when you lifted it up and checked the bottom, you could see a layer of burnt, unpopped kernels. The kind that makes you flinch from the unexpected bitter taste. The kind that may cause you to chip a tooth.
Jennifer Coburn
#15. It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.
Hermann Hesse
#16. But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action. And seeing the eldest of them lost in a reverie that pained us, we added that perhaps the only truth is the peace to be found in books ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#17. The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps," he said.
"I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn't exactly looking for a taste experience," said Corell.
"Man always tries to limit his suffering.
David Lagercrantz
#18. Life, wherever it reveals itself; truth, no matter how bitter; bold, sincere speech with people - these are my leaven, these are what I want, this is where I am afraid of missing the mark.
Modest Mussorgsky
#19. Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.
Bette Midler
#20. I didn't really care for coffee-it was too bitter for my tastes-but I knew it would help wake me up, so I braced myself to take a drink.
Before I could even sip, Maxon slid the bowl of sugar in front of me. Like he knew.
Kiera Cass
#21. The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.
Neil Gaiman
#22. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The
Sela Ward
#23. Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
Ann Voskamp
#24. Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire
#25. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
John Milton
#26. I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.
Craig Kilborn
#27. Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.
John Muir
#28. 20O how terrible for those who confuse good with evil, right with wrong, light with dark, sweet with bitter.
Anonymous
#29. A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.
Theodore H. White
#30. Envy is a bitter fruit, but one that only grows when we water it with the nourishment of society. Remove society, and it will wither on the vine.
Ken Ilgunas
#31. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)
Gilbert Highet
#32. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.
Jamil Ahmad
#33. One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.
Robert Kennedy
#34. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
Alfred Doblin
#36. God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Heinrich Heine
#37. My longtime cold, bitter heart is shattering and disintegrating. In its place is something alive, warm, and pulsing with need to possess this girl.
Phoenyx Slaughter
#38. You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
Jane Goldman
#40. I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'
Buck Leonard
#41. Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.
James Rollins
#42. Of course he loves me. I'm his sister."
"Blood isn't love," said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.
Cassandra Clare
#43. It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.
D.H. Lawrence
#44. Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.
Neil Gaiman
#45. Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.
Madonna Ciccone
#48. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke
Kate Bernheimer
#49. BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.
Stephanie Danler
#50. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!
Charlotte Bronte
#51. yes,' said Frodo. 'But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
Woody Allen
#53. He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J.D. Salinger
#54. The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent.
George R R Martin
#55. Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
Dolores Hitchens
#56. Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.
Stephen King
#57. Hey, are you okay?"he asked "Nickamedes told me what happened with Preston. He and the others were worried about you.
They're out looking for you, along with Daphne, Carson, and Oliver."I let out a bitter laugh."I must have really freaked them out if Nickamedes was worried about me.
Jennifer Estep
#58. Once a Loser never means you cannot muster the courage to be a Winner again,Win is just a manifestation of your bitter experiences for better Win today
Abhishek Sundarraman
#59. It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Greta Garbo
#60. Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
Viktor E. Frankl
#61. Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will become bitter. If you constantly compete with yourself, you can become great.
Jack White
#62. Where do you get bitter cherries?" Deuce asked.
"Disgruntled trees.
Abigail Roux
#63. Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.
Margaret Atwood
#65. Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.
William Butler Yeats
#66. It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.
Sarah Turnbull
#67. If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
Jonathan Sacks
#68. That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of it. Full of violence and pain, with not much but disappointment and hardship in between.
Joe Abercrombie
#69. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I wasn't bitter about that, not like I thought I'd be. I'd miss it, but it was just a piece of who I was now, not everything I was. (p.141)
Kiera Cass
#70. Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.
John Oliver Killens
#71. Some people live in a bitter, angry, hate-filled world.
Some people living in a friendly, caring, love-filled world.
Same world ...
Jose N. Harris
#72. Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
Thomas Szasz
#73. Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.
George Alexiou
#74. The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping.
Radclyffe Hall
#75. Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#76. But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Grethel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, "Now all is over with us." "Be quiet, Grethel," said
Jacob Grimm
#77. Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword
Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
Lemony Snicket
#79. [h]ope, like a desert aloe. Hope, stubborn and bitter to the taste. That hides water. That bears the drought. An ugly plant with the power to heal.
Sofia Samatar
#80. I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis.
Tara Sivec
#81. Change is constant, and we have to evolve or we wind up bitter and resentful, wishing to be with ghosts instead of the living.
Nancy K. Duplechain
#82. Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
Marlene Dietrich
#83. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter." Tyne
Jonathan Renshaw
#84. Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
James S.A. Corey
#85. First shall be the Guardian, a vessel of light in the darkness. Then the Shaft and the Vanguard, who shall fail and yet not fail if the Guide, the Unseen One, goes forth. And at the last shall be again the Guardian, whose portion is bitter, as bitter as gall.
Lynn Flewelling
#86. The problem is, hope is the thing that can't be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It's a blessing and curse.
Cinda Williams Chima
#87. A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
Amy Carmichael
#88. You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.
Alexandre Dumas
#90. Maturity ... is knowing what your limitations are ... Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
Myrtle Reed
#92. If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me.
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster
#93. Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the salt of all human things; yet it had laid up riches, riches to be proud of.
Hermann Hesse
#95. Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger's fruit is the most bitter of all.
Billy Graham
#96. The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.
Munia Khan
#97. Amongst the bitter fruits of life, death is not the worst by a long chalk. the worst is to live far away from oneself
Juan Jose Millas
#98. Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.
John F. Kennedy
#99. Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Eva Gabrielsson
#100. I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, ...
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
