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Quotes About Bitterness

When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it's like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear.
~ Audre Lorde
Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
~ Audre Lorde
I saved your father from destitution, and he rewarded me with all the terrible hatred that a debt of gratitude breeds… he taught his family to speak ill of me. STUDENT
~ August Strindberg
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I said all the wrong things. Except when I was busy saying all the mean ones and in the end I hated everybody and everything.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: Is it good, friend? It is bitter - bitter, he answered; But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.
~ Stephen Crane
Taken all together, 1952 is recalled as one of the bitterest campaigns of the twentieth century, and the one that featured the most mudslinging.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
~ Stephen King
Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.
~ Stephen King
He felt as if someone had reached into his chest and cut off a tiny piece of his heart and made him eat it. His heart tasted very bitter to him, and he hated Peter more than ever, although part of him still loved his handsome older brother and always would. And although the taste had been bitter, he had liked it.Because it was his heart.
~ Stephen King
If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
~ Stephen King
Reality tastes like ashes
~ Azereth Skivel
Pent up anger brews into hate, which subsequently becomes a juicy revenge.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.
~ Ken Poirot
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
~ Pablo Neruda
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)
~ T. D. Jakes
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.
~ Jan Struther
The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
~ Johnny Rich
Piper talked forcefully about how the greatest strength of true Christianity is that it gives people the courage to endure defeat and even suffering without bitterness and that this is the way that the faith will advance, not through vanquishing enemies.
~ Jon Ward