Top 100 Quotes About Bitterness
#1. Gratitude is the number one spiritual combatant against bitterness and anger. A thankful spirit naturally uproots and prevents dark emotions from poisoning the soil of our spirits.
Anna Blanc
#2. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
Graham Greene
#3. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.
Abigail Strom
#4. if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered.
Stormie O'martian
#5. Earlier scarcity dented the happy disposition of folk, as abundance breeds bitterness today.
Girdhar Joshi
#6. Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.
Gustave Flaubert
#7. Until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.
Dorothy Richardson
#8. Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#9. Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#10. He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He
Robert Jordan
#11. Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha
#13. There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet ... I'm not going to forget it.
James Baldwin
#14. Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
Aristotle.
#15. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence of it.
Kenneth Roberts
#16. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#17. A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.
Charles Emmerson
#18. One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
Guy De Maupassant
#19. Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs
#20. If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton
#21. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.
Roland Merullo
#22. Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. He forgot everything: the sorcerer upstairs, the mission, his own imperfection, and the shame and bitterness that came with it.
Cinda Williams Chima
#24. My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.
Gillian Flynn
#25. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Robert Bly
#26. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
Johnny Rich
#29. I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
Pierce Brosnan
#30. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#31. So I pushed the bitterness down, into the black pit of my stomach along with my regret and my grief and my fear, and I said, I'm fine. May i go now?
R. J. Anderson
#32. It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.
Heather Small
#34. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
Fanny Kemble
#35. Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.
Billy Graham
#36. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.
Pema Chodron
#37. We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
John Lancaster Spalding
#39. After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen
#40. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
James Augustus St. John
#41. Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#42. Getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn't help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#43. Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.
Bryan Chapell
#44. Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.
Rubin Carter
#45. Too often we try to avoid that scary place where we love so deep, so much, our hearts could break. But without the bitterness, we would never appreciate the sweetness.
Sara Hagerty
#46. Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland
#47. There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.
Salman Rushdie
#48. I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory
tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that
but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#49. Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.
Zelda La Grange
#50. No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JoyBell C.
#51. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.
Karleen Koen
#52. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
#53. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
Winston Graham
#54. Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.
Paul Celan
#57. Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#58. Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
Timothy Keller
#59. It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.
Zig Ziglar
#60. How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth.
Marilyn Nelson
#61. 31 g Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 h Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, i forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Anonymous
#62. Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy.
Anonymous
#63. Spirits bring contentment for a time carry us closer to the sacred moving through bitterness our yearning to hold on to moments of ecstasy where we imagine we hear clearly destiny calling
Bell Hooks
#64. God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry
Elizabeth Gaskell
#65. Loving for the second time isn't sweet; it's bitter, and hurt more than the first.
Jessica E. Larsen
#66. [it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter ...
Crescent Dragonwagon
#67. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness - everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).
Jack Kerouac
#68. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.
Eric Hoffer
#70. But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. There
Jane Austen
#71. There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.
Barnabas
#72. The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
Anthony Shadid
#73. I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#74. They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.
Olaf Stapledon
#75. Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.
the Tai Chi instructor
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#76. Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
Alana Stewart
#77. It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#79. He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Evelyn Waugh
#80. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
Alice Hoffman
#81. It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.
Donna Lynn Hope
#82. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter
Max Lucado
#83. One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#84. What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.
Luke Davies
#85. The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
John Owen
#86. Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.
M.J. Ryan
#87. He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.
Riccardo Bruni
#88. Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
Barbara Kingsolver
#89. Don't let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.
Billy Graham
#91. Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.
Joseph G. Peterson
#92. Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it
Gerald Priestland
#93. There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
Hafez
#94. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.
Emily Giffin
#95. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
Oswald Chambers
#96. Some girls are sweeter ... Others have a tinge of bitterness ... It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#97. Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me ...
Fernando Pessoa
#98. There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.
Billy Graham
#99. Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.
Jentezen Franklin
#100. Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue.
Catherine M. Wilson
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