Quotes About Bitterness

Now I weep like a man who wails the dead and the dirge comes pouring forth with all my heart!

Filho caríssimo de Egeu: somente os deuses fogem aos males da velhice e aos da morte; o tempo onipotente abate tudo mais; decai a força da terra, decai o corpo; a lealdade finda e floresce a perfídia e tanto entre os amigos quanto entre as cidades não prevalece para sempre o mesmo ânimo; agora para uns, amanhã para outros, cede a doçura seu lugar ao amargor e depois volta a transformar-se em amizade

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

At certain revolutions all the damn'dAre brought: and feel by turns the bitter changeOf fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

How bitter is lovelessness both to suffer and to inflict. More than anything I have dreaded the despair of its remembrance and the threat of its repeat.

George Devine's disapproval of Fry, Ustinov and John Whiting was almost startling in its bitterness: 'They're all absolute shit.' It was a little breathtaking. I was only accustomed to this kind of throw-away vehemence from myself.

And so with faithful Ruth we pray That bitter providence today Tomorrow will taste very sweet, And every famine that we meet And every broken staff of bread In death, will bring us life instead.

If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!

Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him no vision of the University to which he had committed himself, it did reveal to him something about his relationship to the two men, and it gave him a glimpse of the corrosive and unspoiled bitterness of youth.

I had a vague, unreasoning feeling that she would take away some of the bitterness of it, as she has taken the bitterness of much else.

The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

But I am not bitter because that would be a waste of my time, and wasting time is one of the only sins worth worrying about.