Quotes with bitter

  • 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
  • There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
  • This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
  • People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
  • Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
  • Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A.R. Orage Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Mark Twain Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alcuin of York What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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  • Billy Graham 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Bayard Taylor Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • William Shakespeare But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Francis Bacon Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Boman Irani First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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