Top 88 Quotes About Bitter Taste
#1. The scaly spindles of a conifer's cone, the helicoidal flow of a river's curve biting away the bank, the flash of orange upon a butterfy's wings warning predators of a bitter taste. This is order from choas; this is beautiful, and it's all the more beautiful for having designed itself.
Alexandra Oliva
#2. The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner
#3. The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
#4. You see, at young age I had known how bitter taste like and it all started with a cup of brewed coffee.
Ymatruz
#5. Vitriol was released by the human organism whenever a person found him- or herself in a frightening situation, although it had yet to be picked up in any spectrographic tests. It was easily recognized, though, by its taste, which was neither sweet nor savory - a bitter taste.
Paulo Coelho
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Sweet like liquor. Sweet like heroin. She's an addict's kind of bitter taste--my own personal hit of dope
Lana Sky
#10. It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind.
L.F. Falconer
#11. Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#12. I am like a little child naked in a strong wind. I have a fever, I shiver, I'm too hot or too cold. My lips retain the unusual fruity taste of your mouth, & the bitter taste of your saliva lingers on my tongue, making me find everything I eat bland, sickening since nothing is as good as your love.
Rachilde
#13. such a bitter taste in his mouth? He had become so accustomed to her feisty spirit and to the martial spark that flared in her eyes when she was ready to do battle, that this quiet surrender left him feeling more like a bullying lout than an officer deserving
Andrea Pickens
#14. From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Lucretius
#15. Duty,sacrifice, they mean something.
Eat bitter taste sweet
Rick Riordan
#16. Things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#17. I'm loyal to my Clan, Lionpaw told himself. I shouldn't have to prove it. But still, the bitter taste of his lie stung in his throat.
Erin Hunter
#18. Because being a fan is not all about the good times when victory makes life better. Dealing with defeat helps mold you as a fan. If you didn't experience the bitter taste of losing, then you wouldn't have any humility. You wouldn't have a heart. You'd be a New York Yankees fan.
Mark Tye Turner
#19. We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste.
Cole McCade
#20. They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.
Oscar Wilde
#21. The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.
Haruki Murakami
#22. If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#23. No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. It's just more comfortable. And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.
Muriel Barbery
#24. I am obsessed. I believe this is what they call "getting taste of one's own medicine," and it's a bitter flavor.
Wendy Higgins
#25. How you brew your life is how it's gonna taste on your tongue. You have the choice to make it bitter or sweeter. It all depend on the actions that you take day in day out.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.
Homaro Cantu
#27. The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?
Munia Khan
#28. I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue.
Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.
Elizabeth Scott
#29. I suppose a good recipe for life would be to allow nothing into it, knowingly at least, which is bitter.
It's disappointing we aren't able to simply spit people out that don't taste well.
Scott Hildreth
#30. And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.
Oscar Wilde
#31. As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.
Michael Greger
#32. What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.
Lauren Oliver
#33. Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet
Joni Mitchell
#34. Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.
Madonna Ciccone
#37. So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.
Tracy Chapman
#38. Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.
John Locke
#39. Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her!
Neil Gaiman
#40. I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#41. Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.
John F. Kennedy
#42. The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.
Munia Khan
#43. You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
Laura Donnelly
#44. The taste of love is always amazing; even when it's bitter
Munia Khan
#45. [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
#46. Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
Dolores Hitchens
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
B.R. Ambedkar
#51. Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that the plant is high in glucose, which meant that it would offer us lots of energy.
Cameron Diaz
#53. The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
H. Rider Haggard
#54. It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.
Jane Wyman
#55. A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.
Jay Wickre
#56. To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
Elia Kazan
#58. If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles.
Robert Kiyosaki
#59. She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.
Karleen Koen
#60. It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such a source of sweetness.
Augustine Of Hippo
#61. The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food - it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
George Eliot
#62. There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.
Rawi Hage
#63. 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
#64. I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
Taylor Swift
#65. In the kitchen, Chris pours her a glass of sun tea. Bitter. She hates the way they make tea up here. Tea should be sweet, gritty with sugar. Up here it's like the Yankees want their tea to taste like wash water.
Chuck Wendig
#66. I'm not bitter for they are telling me I am HISTORY
You wouldn't be bitter if you are HISTORY any of you
A MAN would not be bitter if entering History! nor should a WOMAN
Break my heart, better than break my nose (you bastards)
Revenge is SWEET (& I need to acquire that taste)
Joyce Carol Oates
#67. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
William Shakespeare
#68. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
#69. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#70. September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn't looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.
Catherynne M Valente
#71. A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
Augustine Of Hippo
#72. 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
#73. If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.
Ruth Negga
#74. What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.
Rob Thomas
#75. Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
Cameron Dokey
#76. For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha)
H. Rider Haggard
#77. I've spend the last couple of years trying to destroy everything around me. Who knew success would taste so bitter.
Erin Watt
#78. Children aren't supposed to like dark chocolate. It's one of those bitter things that you are meant to acquire a taste for later in life, like olives and self-pity.
Emma Jane Unsworth
#79. Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
Anthony Liccione
#80. Live bitter, so the crows will have no taste for you when you're dead.
Laini Taylor
#81. A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
Jodi Picoult
#82. Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste.
Marty Rubin
#83. And your skin is like honey. I wonder how you taste."
Bitter and tired. "Mhm.
Ilona Andrews
#84. 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
#85. We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
Jacqueline Carey
#86. Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth5 as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.
John Calvin
#87. I've found that God often lets us taste how sweet he is in our most bitter moments.
Andy Mineo
#88. The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste.
Israelmore Ayivor
