Top 100 Quotes About Bitterness
#1. An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#2. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
#3. Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
Horace
#4. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.
Robby Benson
#5. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#6. Months of silence had made him very bitter, and his bitterness had ripened, in an instant, into spite.
Eleanor Catton
#7. Pain has been and grief enough and bitterness and crying,
Sharp ways and stony ways I think it was she trod;
But all there is to see now is a white bird flying,
Whose blood-stained wings go circling high - circling up to God!
Margaret Widdemer
#8. I saw disillusionment. I saw pain, bitterness, anger--all things I understood very well. But then I saw what was underneath all that. Those were just layers; they weren't the heart of who you are.
E.B. Dawson
#9. Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
Petrarch
#10. If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment.
Bill Johnson
#12. Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
Craig Groeschel
#13. I've had this pain. To tell you it will go away would be a lie. It will never go away. But, if you live long enough, it will cease to torture and will instead flavor you. As we rely on the bitterness of strong tea to wake us, this too will become something you can use.
Eli Brown
#14. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
Abraham Verghese
#15. What? I ask. I try not to get snappy with her. She hasn't really done anything wrong. Falling in love with Turner isn't a sin, but hey, bitterness coasts the tongue, right? I try to breath past it?
C.M. Stunich
#16. Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.
Cathy Bryant
#17. I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
Ja Rule
#18. The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
William Penn
#19. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#21. It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
#22. People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room.
Steve Toltz
#23. Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. He was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.
George Eliot
#25. The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.
Francis Thompson
#26. I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.
Mary Shelley
#27. happiness is that state wherein a person is flooded with positive energy and thus has no time and space for any sort of negativity, such as anger, sadness, envy, and bitterness, among other things.
Edgar J. Keyes
#28. Because of Calvary, I'm free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love ... No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness.
Max Lucado
#29. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...
Rachel Caine
#30. Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. The F word turns me on, she whispered.
The F word?
Food
He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn't tinged with bitterness and cynicism.
Sandra Brown
#32. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#33. The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
Thomas Watson
#34. I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
Henri Nouwen
#35. Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentment or bitterness.
Tiffany L. Jackson
#36. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#37. I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M Valente
#38. Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness,
there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness.
Debasish Mridha
#39. He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
Alain De Botton
#40. Anger, resentment, and bitterness stunt our spiritual growth. Would you bathe in impure water? Then why do we bathe our spirits with negative and bitter thoughts and feelings? You can cleanse your heart. You don't have to harbor thoughts and feelings that drag you down and destroy your spirit.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#41. Wouldn't it be easier keep your victim faceless?"
I shuddered. "Not a victim."
"What else do you call one hemmed in by fate?"
"Human," I said, bitterness creeping into my voice.
"What about guilt, then? Why open yourself to pain?"
"Guilt is what makes you accountable.
Roshani Chokshi
#42. The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#43. What we cannot change we must endure without bitterness.
Lisa Wingate
#44. In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.
Peter Drucker
#45. I hated her out of principle; and that principle was bitterness.
Molly Harper
#46. If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!
Mark Twain
#47. I knew that holding a grudge only hurts the one who holds it. It only eats away at the one who has the anger and bitterness inside.
Lisa Lace
#48. Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
Tony Evans
#49. HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
Ambrose Bierce
#50. You cannot truly love yourself if you are constantly surrounded by clutter, chaos and bitterness. The time has come for you to de-clutter your mind and your environment.
Winsome Campbell-Green
#52. - Exactly as you imagine. They remain tied to us through the feeling of bitterness. That is why Jesus said: "before going to the temple, go back and forgive your brother." One must be forever washing one's soul with the water of forgiveness.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
#54. Resentment and bitterness build the cage that only punishes ourselves.
Jeffrey Fry
#55. Forgiveness is far easier to grant than to grasp onto the hatred and bitterness
Nicole Bonney
#56. We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers ... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness ...
Alain De Botton
#57. I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.
Karrine Steffans
#58. You don't even know me. (Adron)
Yes, I do. You try to hide what you are, but I see it. It shines through your bitterness with a brightness not even you can extinguish. (Livia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. Anger and bitterness are normal feelings, but they're like cancer if you can't control them.
Andrew Peterson
#60. You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.
Debasish Mridha
#61. There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of despair, as well as the wreckage of the Phoenix. And which rescue is the more real? Nothing you could have done for me ... was more important than the restoration of my hope.
Connie Willis
#62. In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
Graham Greene
#63. Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.
Pat Dye
#64. ... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.
Alan Furst
#65. Hunting humans for sport? Eating them?" the bitterness in his voice cut through me. "Yeah, I caught that part."
"That doesn't have anything to do with you?
He lifted his eyes, gaze shuttered. "No?"
"Not unless being a werewolf transforms you into a wolf AND a redneck moron.
Kelley Armstrong
#66. A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
John Lyly
#67. An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.
Anne Rice
#68. Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.
Omar Suleiman
#69. If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Paul Harris
#70. A heart consumed by bitterness turns to stone.
Rona V Flynn
#71. There had been something in the details he had chosen to describe that made her cry herself asleep that night, for the kitten, for Anthony for herself, for the pain and bitterness and cruelty of all the world.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.
Lorrie Moore
#75. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
#76. He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
Johannes Tauler
#77. But I also saw a city still bruised and bleeding from years of crushing war. I saw souls darkened by loss and bitterness in the crusades. I saw faith destroyed after the brutality we'd endured in its name.
Julie Berry
#78. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.
Roger Housden
#79. From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius
#81. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation
either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#82. Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#83. Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
Zig Ziglar
#84. Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
Ahmed Kathrada
#85. Distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#86. Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
Edith Cavell
#87. Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys.
Elaine Di Rollo
#88. Most people don't fall out of love at the same time. One person always wants more than the other person can give them. And that ends in bitterness.
Josh Lanyon
#89. The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Michel De Montaigne
#90. Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.
Lee Strobel
#91. REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU'VE MADE BITTERNESS AND HATRED YOUR BEST FRIENDS, IF YOU CARRY THEM AROUND LONG ENOUGH, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY EAT YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
Kris Vallotton
#92. Sin of any kind grieves the Holy Spirit, but that form of it which finds expression in bitterness towards another child of God causes Him special pain.
Patrick Fung
#93. It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife
Confucius
#94. But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness.
Simone De Beauvoir
#95. It's out there," Bitterness says. "Your monster. Mendicant Bias. Can't you feel it?
Greg Bear
#97. Don't believe anything she tells you. Her name is Mary. Mary is bitterness
S.A. David
#98. He poured his feelings into the kiss, fire and ice, love and regret, joy and bitterness. Everything he had to give her.
Christine Feehan
#99. A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.
Mariama Ba
#100. Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.
George Eliot
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