Quotes About Bitterness

It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Don't call me Naomi, which means pleasant. But call me Miriam, which means bitterness. I will weep, and I will not be comforted, for the Lord God hath dealt bitterly with me." She would light a candle to Mary, Esther decided.

An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.

The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.

The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.

She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

The U.S. president's consent to the Versailles Treaty did more to damage his reputation among his fellow liberals than anything else he did that crucial year. It also sowed the seeds for a bitterness among Germans that would ripen into the political movement that led to Adolf Hitler and World War II.

Er schuilt een gif in vergiffenis.

One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap.—And I found her bitter.—And I cursed her.

But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.

Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré! Les aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soleil amer.

Pues, desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.

Desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.» El capitán Alatriste

I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.

I'd hate their guts if they had any.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

Nothing like rejection to make what is wholly yours seem sweet and right.

If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it come to pass towards thee, O man, that since thou, which art God's work, doest him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing service, even thine own works also should reward thee with the like fruit of bitterness.

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

Real Madrid? I don't have any nostalgia or bitterness.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.