Top 100 Quotes About Bitter Love
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you
Oscar Wilde
#8. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
Francesco Petrarca
#13. I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
Nadia Giosia
#14. As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
Arthur Schopenhauer
#15. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#16. Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
#17. When love is sweet, the sweetness means its light
And light may keep the truth, when love is pure.
But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.
Lovers in a fight are quite immature.'
From the poem 'A Note on Existentialist Love
Marieta Maglas
#18. Loving for the second time isn't sweet; it's bitter, and hurt more than the first.
Jessica E. Larsen
#19. I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.
Rico Love
#20. He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith Piaf
#22. Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.
Nicholas Sparks
#23. Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
Thomas Campbell
#24. He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
Margaret Mitchell
#25. Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Marian Keyes
#26. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
#28. We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for 'our own' the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Margaret E. Sangster
#29. Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.
Aaron Cometbus
#30. I'm in love with a girl who knows me better.
Fell for the woman just when I met her.
Took my sweet time when I was bitter.
Someone understands,
She knows how treat a fella right.
Give me that feeling every night,
She wants show love when I wanna fight,
Now someone understand me.
Juxtaposition
#31. Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
Sri Chinmoy
#32. And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.
Augustus Hill
#33. Met men who made me laugh, men who made me think, men who made me cum. But I never met another man who made my heart leap and had me hoping for forever. Two chances at love in one lifetime, it seemed, were the maximum any one person got. During my bitter moments, it
Anonymous
#34. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.
Nicole Lyons
#35. In politics, as in love, opposites attract, and the misunderstandings that ensue tend to be as bitter and, as in love, as equally terminal.
Gore Vidal
#36. And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
W.B.Yeats
#37. Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Is love a passionate embrace,
where you grab but cannot taste.
your lustfull urge will surely replace,
that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads to disgrace,
Pierre Blundell
#39. To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering
Therese De Lisieux
#40. Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
Charles Caleb Colton
#41. They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud - or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young.
Robin McKinley
#42. Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
Cesar Chavez
#43. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#44. I love you," he said.
"I love you too, for all the good it does." She sounded bitter. Angry. Not at him, but at the universe.
Michael Grant
#45. You and I both know that love is for children,' he said. 'We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'
'Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,' Teresa replied. 'Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. I envy
the cup of coffee
that gets
to kiss
your sleepy lips
awake
every cold and
bitter morning.
Sade Andria Zabala
#47. Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Rumi
#48. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Oscar Wilde
#49. I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
Waris Dirie
#50. I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"
I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious?
Lisa Kessler
#51. For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.
Jan Struther
#52. And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
H. Rider Haggard
#53. Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating.
T.F. Hodge
#54. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
Hilda Doolittle
#55. The danger with relationships when we are vulnerable is that we may not be able to evaluate them honestly and from a godly perspective. What is bitter may look sweet because of our weakened position.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#56. Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn't bear fruit like you'd hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liar.
Elise Kova
#57. What's wrong with writing about love? Everybody longs for love.
Kate Forsyth
#58. It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
Gregory Maguire
#59. I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace -
Saaskia Aark-Bennett
#60. Love needs too much help, he said.
hate takes care of itself.
Charles Bukowski
#62. I have cried an ocean for you but still your ship refuses to sail.
Michael Faudet
#63. I have been in love already, but I don't think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn't love you back.
Tom Kaulitz
#64. What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.
Rob Thomas
#65. Bitter always follows the sweet, especially when it come to love. Especially when it come to forbidden love.
Karina Halle
#66. Every poison is not bitter but definitely they all kill.
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old loves.
Elizabeth Savage
#68. We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
Jessica-Lynn Barbour
#69. I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
Sam Riley
#70. That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death.
Thomas Pynchon
#71. When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
#72. She felt as though she were a statue of ashes - bitter, useless, damned - like the salt statues of Gomorrah. For she was guilty. Those who love God, and by Him are abandoned in the dark of night, are guilty, because they are abandoned.
Pauline Reage
#73. There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian
Kailin Gow
#74. I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
Nicole Kidman
#75. Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this
who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
George Arnold
#76. Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.
Jewel
#77. With two lovers there is always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved; it is bitter truth to which most of us have to resign ourselves; but now and then there are two who love and two who let themselves be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. All I hope is that you can someday know that love doesn't have to be a brutal, bitter, power game. Love can be the ugly beautiful.
Lauren Blakely
#79. I'm not the kind of girl who wants her name tattooed on your arm," she purred. "Think of me as your dirty little secret.
Michael Faudet
#81. World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#82. We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste.
Cole McCade
#83. They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.
Oscar Wilde
#84. Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
Anthony Liccione
#85. There is an empty space in my heart. It weighs me down and each step I take through life gets harder and harder, I realize now that I am no longer the man she once knew, but a bitter and hollow replica of him, unworthy of her love.
Inger Iversen
#86. In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#87. Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
Pablo Neruda
#88. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
George R R Martin
#89. The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.
Charles Bukowski
#90. Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid.
Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.
Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.
Vironika Tugaleva
#91. Summer Storm
She was wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and dangerous. Impossible to resist. A summer storm in a bikini.
Michael Faudet
#92. Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
Courtney Love
#93. Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
Bertolt Brecht
#94. For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy
even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.
Jean Rhys
#96. I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it), ...
Stephen King
#98. Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the proverb says, and it is a true one. Another's wife is a swan, but one's own is bitter wormwood.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men
Sunday Adelaja
#100. There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.
Danny Dyer
