Quotes About Bitterness

There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.

Don't let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred . . .We can't escape from God.

My wife has said that a bitter, sour Christian is one of Satan's greatest trophies—and she's right.

We can react with bitterness and hate God, as some do, or we can accept suffering as a natural part of life and a condition that comes with living in this world. We cannot avoid suffering, but we can determine our response to it.

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

La vie est amère quand il n'y a pas de sucre au fond

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead: and then you deserve to be hung for it.

hatred consumes the heart and leaves little room for love or laughter.

Bitterness against an individual becomes a poison—not one that destroys your enemy but one that gradually destroys you.

he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred….

A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.

At the moment when his soul brimmed with bitterness and disgust, when his spirit was darkened, he encountered a woman, a stranger… who showed gratitude for this proposal of a special union. She was an invalid, marked for death, eaten away by cancer as Kleist was eaten away by the fatigue of life, and though herself incapable of making a forceful resolution, she was exalted by his passion and agreed to journey with him into the abyss.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...