Quotes About Bitterness

La haine est aveugle, la colère étourdie, et celui qui se verse la vengeance risque de boire un breuvage amer.

he sat down in the chair and went over in his mind everything that in the past week or so had filled his cup of bitter sorrows and dark memories to overflowing.

L'odio è cieco, la collera stordisce, e colui che si versa la vendetta rischia di bere un'amara pozione.

Ce sont les illusions qui rendent les douleurs amères et inguérissables.

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again.

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.

I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person?

I no longer cared if my mother disliked me. 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.

I had swallowed my share of bitterness, but a portion had stuck in my throat and turned to rage.

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, hissed the philosopher, May you live forever!

Some deep disappointment in early life had soured its disposition, and it had declared war upon the whole world.

I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.

Generosity and goodwill sit well on you but they simply do not go with my complexion at all. A certain number of bitter enemies are an essential accessory for a lady of fashion.

He'll trip over his own cock soon enough, then you can laugh at the outcome without getting your hands dirty. If I've learned one thing, it's that there's rarely any need to wade into the bitter ocean for your vengeance. It'll wash up on the shore soon enough.

Vengeance is never halfway as simple, or halfway as sweet, as you think it's going to be.

Someone who'd starved in the camps, who'd lied her way into the hearts and beds of good people, who'd tricked and tortured to betray a cause she halfway believed in for the sake of one she didn't at all, might've felt a little bitter at seeing all this money wasted.

That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.

But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

You can't stop the offense from coming, but you can keep it from getting down in you. How much time are you spending offended, bitter, holding on to a grudge? How much more could you accomplish if you would start letting things go?