Quotes About Bitterness

And while a small measure of bitterness might've protected me from time to time, as it sometimes does, I've learned that sweet memories don't walk through cynical doors.

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

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came to an end and it is history.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

La segunda tentación consistía en la amargura, en el propio abandono masoquista al odio, al sufrimiento y a un pesimismo sin barreras.

The old queen had failed them so miserably... She was such a bitter disappointment. But Ursula was different. There was no one to distract her, no one for her to love. She was alone in the world, alone in her grief, and alone with her pain. No, she wouldn't disappoint them. Unlike the old queen, Ursula would be able to fill her heart with hate.

Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears.

I did not know I hated—I did not know there was meanness in me, and permanent dysforgiveness and scorn.

Gwen hates me," she reminded him. "Don't be narcissistic. She hates everyone.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.

One thing at least was beginning to clarify itself in Elizabeth's mind. Their separation had not been brought about by his lack of love or by cruelty. Somehow there had been a massive misunderstanding. For six years each of them had believed the other at fault. Each had carried the pain and the bitterness all that time.

Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.

It is said, you know, that hatred is very akin to love. There is too much to dislike, he told her. There are too many irritants. There is too much bitterness and lack of trust. There is too much— Passion? she suggested.

No one could have convinced her six years before that the day would come when she and Robert would sleep under the same roof, in separate bedrooms, not only strangers to each other, but bitter strangers.

I am malicious because I am miserable

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.