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Quotes About Bitterness

Everyone got bitterness in his chosen thing. It might be in the end that the chosen thing that the chosen thing in itself is bitterness because to arrive at the chosen thing needs courage, because it's intense, and intensity is what the feeble humanity of us can't take for long. And also the chosen thing can't be one that we already have, since what we already have there isn't much use or respect for.
~ Saul Bellow
Suppose, then, that after the greatest , most passionate vividness and tender glory, oblivion is all were have to expect, the big blank of death. What options present themselves? One option is to train yourself gradually into oblivion so that no great change has taken place when you have died. Another option is to increase the bitterness of life so that death is a desirable release. (In this the rest of mankind will fully collaborate.)
~ Saul Bellow
When people really deteriorate, their only contribution is malicious joy in the misfortune of others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trials in this life will expose what is in your heart—whether the offense is toward God or others. Tests either make you bitter toward God and your peers or stronger. If you pass the test, your roots will shoot down deeper, stabilizing you and your future. If you fail, you become offended, which can lead to defilement with bitterness.
~ John Bevere
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
~ John Bolton
It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.
~ John Cheever
It bore an expression he'd seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.
~ John Connolly
He is not bitter. Never that. Babe would have said it was not worth becoming bitter, and Babe would have been right. But he is sad, sad that they do not care as much as he does.
~ John Connolly
Much malice mingled with a little wit.
~ John Dryden
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
~ Evan Esar
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
~ Iimani David
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
~ Steven Morrissey
A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
~ William Morris
One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words
~ Aftab Alam
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;He wept that he was ever born,And he had reasons.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
A conversation based on truth, fairness, and harmony solves many problems that occur due to misunderstanding and lack of trust. Be aware that the conversation with fools and cheaters is nothing except a headache, a waste of time, and much more bitterness.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The journey of the truth is always bitter, and its destination is such sweet that, makes your emotions impressive and beautiful.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Life teaches you that you cannot attain real maturity until you are ready to accept this harsh knowledge, this limitation in yourself, and make the difficult adjustment. Either you must learn to allow someone else to meet the need, without bitterness or envy, and accept it; or somehow you must make yourself learn to meet it. If you refuse to accept the limitation in yourself, you will be unable to grow beyond this point.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It wasn't innocent blood. To my father nothing about Amalia ever seemed innocent. He, so furious, so bitter and yet so eager for pleasure, so irascible and so egotistical, couldn't bear that she had a friendly, at times even joyful, relationship with the world. He recognized in it a trace of betrayal.
~ Elena Ferrante
You bet. But I'd rather be bitter than frivolous. Okay, my sexual experience might be limited to kissing my cousin's boyfriend in the Belgrade zoo at age thirteen, whereas Sanja is having an affair with a thirty-five-year-old married newscaster. But even so, I think I have a deeper understanding of love than she does.
~ Elif Batuman
My father says that surviving a war makes you either very bitter or very frivolous.
~ Elif Batuman
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
~ Antisthenes
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
~ Antisthenes
Motivation is about being honest to oneself to say own thoughts truthfully to others for an inspiration , but almost everyone knows the universal fact that the truth is often bitter ; so a person serving only sweet talk to the people all the time is not a motivation speaker but a self-seeker.
~ Anuj Somany