Quotes About Bitterness

I am growing meaner by the hour.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

On 'EastEnders' everyone's bitter, angry. Where are the wonderful characters that I lived with, who could find humour even in the lowest form of living?

Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate.

There were a lot of people who deserved a lesson, deserved to really understand, that nothing came easy, that most things were going to go sour.

My feelings for her were veering too quickly from bitter to sweet.

My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.

I know I'm a hateful creature.

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

It was like hate on a deathbed.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.

When you are miserable, you envy other people's happiness.' It wasn't what I had ever expected him to learn in the Ministry of Home Security. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

You think God's more bitter than a woman!?

he recognized the malice which remained alive and kicking in the old man long after discretion had died from a lifetime's neglect.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

Perturabo shook his head. 'I worship nothing. I believe in nothing.' The finality of this last utterance almost stopped him in his tracks. The force of it was like a blow, a bitter seed of truth he had never acknowledged or known until this moment. He saw the awareness of it reflected in Fulgrim's eyes. 'And that is why you live a stale, bitter life,' said Fulgrim, contempt and pity dripping from his scornful words.

It's out there," Bitterness says. "Your monster. Mendicant Bias. Can't you feel it?

Axonn sighed. Just like the good old days, he said. Now I remember why I hated them so much.

She was bitter toward her parents, estranged from her sisters, and simply marinated in negativity. It was as if she felt some deep hatred of her fate and was too weak to fight against the middleness that was consuming her.

Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.