Top 67 Quotes About Bitterest
#1. One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#3. The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
George Jean Nathan
#4. Success is the sweetest thing to taste,
the bitterest thing to lose,
and the hardest thing to earn.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#5. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
#6. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Mary Shelley
#7. We have three ways to act wisely. First by thinking. That's the noblest. Second by imitating. That's the easiest. And third by experience. This is the bitterest.
Anonymous
#8. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
Boethius
#9. Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust.
Hilda Doolittle
#10. The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
Eugene B. Sledge
#13. The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.
Geoffrey O'Brien
#15. Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Pablo Neruda
#18. Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
Margaret Deland
#19. A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Aristotle.
#20. The bitterest truth was always better than the sweetest lie.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn: as only similars can be profitably contrasted, so only similar people quarrel, and the bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief.
Will Durant
#22. ...that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
John Galsworthy
#23. It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
Lemony Snicket
#24. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#25. I like poisons, the slowest
and drinks, the stronges
and coffee, the bitterest
and the craziest hallucinations.
You can even throw me off a cliff, I'll say:
So what? I love to fly
Bruna Lombardi
#26. Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides Of Ceos
#27. The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.
Anthony Trollope
#28. Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
A.J.P. Taylor
#29. What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.
Drake
#30. Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
William Blake
#32. That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all
Nick Hornby
#34. It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter cup of my life.
Harriet Jacobs
#35. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
#36. The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.
Gume Laurel III
#37. Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
#38. The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#40. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
#41. Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
Soren Kierkegaard
#42. Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
Mary MacLane
#43. Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.
Francois Fenelon
#44. It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.
David Kuo
#45. The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
Edith Hamilton
#46. Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
Matsuo Basho
#47. No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Richard Jefferies
#50. Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
Tony Hancock
#51. Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
Antonio Machado
#52. It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]
Joseph Conrad
#53. In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.
Philip Jenkins
#54. Love is real
the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.
Charlotte Bronte
#55. I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.
John Dos Passos
#57. Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?
John Of Kronstadt
#58. He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.
Gregg Levoy
#59. When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#60. The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
#62. I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.
Stephanie Courtney
#63. We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world filled us with its poisons so as old men, filled to the brim with the bitterest gall, we could fall into hell and take it all with us. Perhaps without death the world would choke on its own evils.
Mark Lawrence
#64. Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji
Matthew Polly
#65. That is the bitterest of all,
to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
George Eliot
#67. For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.
Leo Tolstoy
