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Quotes About Bitterness

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
~ George Villiers
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
~ Peter McWilliams
Hayranl?k ma?lup olmu? bir k?skançl?kt?r. Yani k?skançl?k g?ptaya, g?pta hayranl??a yerini verir. Dibinde kin vard?r. Gitgide, hayranl???n zaafa u?rad??? anlarda bu kin ortaya ç?kar.
~ Peyami Safa
I missed the sad things about growing old, when women no longer look at you, when wine makes you weep instead of laugh and makes your mouth sour with the taste of weakness, and every day is one day nearer death.
~ Philip José Farmer
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
~ Philippa Gregory
Il a, sur le bord des lèvres, toutes les rancunes de l'enfance.
~ Philippe Besson
Es un placer amargo: bebemos para olvidar el primer trago.
~ Philippe Delerm
That hater-juice is best served cold.
~ Michael Sorrentino
Johnson said: "John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed—that America must move forward. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.
~ Jon Meacham
ja nie wybaczam niczego. nawet je?li w pi?tej klasie zw?dzi?e? mi pomara?czow? kredk?, to jeste? ju? na zawsze na mojej czarnej li?cie, draniu.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Your cross is your attitude about your dead-end job and your in-laws. It is your attitude about your aches and pains. Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendió con cierta amargura que su hijo estaba listo para nacer —y tal vez impaciente. Esa noche lo besó por primera vez
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What bitter slavishness, that of my face, that of one of my former faces. This odious fate reserved for my features must perforce make me odious too, but I no longer care.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And there is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unful-fillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
~ Joseph Campbell
In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic unfulfillment galls the blood of even the envied of the world!
~ Joseph Campbell
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
~ A. R. Orage
It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home.
~ A.A. Gill
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
~ Abdul Kalam
People like Uncle Hashim can say things like that, even if they are true. They can store them for years, hold on to them and let them harden and solidify, until the moment arrives when they can be delivered as they had been intended to, to crush a bone or bruise the heart.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
But one thing I won't have is regrets. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize that no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
~ Abraham Verghese
They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize that no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
~ Abraham Verghese
it is a reminder that the sweetness of life comes with bitterness.
~ Abraham Verghese