Quotes About Bitterness

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

Sweet pomegranate wine in my mouthis bitter as the gall of birds.But your embracesalone give life to my heart;may Amun give me what I have foundfor all eternity.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.

For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

Perhaps his rage expressed an unspoken, unadmitted bitterness at the truth that he had bought his high place in the world by subduing the claims of affection to the imperatives of power.

You're a miserable bastard, Hawthorne. You always were and you still are. That business with Abbott. I shouldn't have had to take the rap for that. You screwed me over and I'm only doing this fucking job now because of you.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Satire is focused bitterness.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

I want to enjoy what I'm doing and don't want to be frustrated, and angry and bitter with what I'm doing.

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud.

Are you sure the child was left at a school in Paris? Are you sure it was Paris?" "My dear fellow," broke forth Carrisford, with restless bitterness, "I am sure of nothing.

Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.

Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

For every veteran who returns with a new sense of destiny ('I survived; that must be God's purpose') more come home with barely submerged bitterness, ready to take 'the easy way' because they saw so much of it in the stresses of war.

who hate the Harkonnens so much they'll burn a chair in which a Harkonnen has sat, salt the ground over which a Harkonnen has walked.

Îngr?dirile de orice fel sunt cel mai fertil teren pentru cultivarea urii fa?? de tot ce vine din exterior (...). Numai c? recolta este întotdeauna amar?.

What do you give me?" All of the bitterness was there and a hint of the spice from her dried food.

When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam.

Though surrounded by sinfulness and terror, we must not become so embittered that we take Satan's methods as our own.

At the expense of Gregor's sacrifice, the sister, at the end of the story, stretches her arrogant body and gets the liberation Gregor longed for. Under Gregor's care first, and then her parents', the sister enjoys a healthy childhood, one leading to physical and mental development, and one in which she isn't trapped. Yet our loyalty to Gregor extends even beyond death, and his sister's cheery success story offers but a bitter pill