Quotes About Bitterness

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

There's no place like home / So where am I?" MacKaye sings with undisguised bitterness. "I just felt so betrayed by my friends," MacKaye says, "for doing what I wanted to do, for doing what I thought was the right thing." They performed the song only once, at their first show after reuniting. Afterward Baker and Preslar heaved handfuls of change at the audience.

they could take you off shuddering in your sleep. No one who heard it was able to smile that bitter, secret survivor's smile that was the reflex to almost all news of disaster. It was too awful even for that.

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.

We find ourselves in a "collage" in which nothing has moved into the past and no wounds have healed with time, in which everything is present, open and bitter, in which everything coexists contiguously….

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.

I'd always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

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.

You had the physical sensation Of someone's quiet voice beside you. It was my old prophetic voice Sounding, untouched by decay: "Farewell, azure of Transfiguration, Farewell, the Second Savior's gold. Ease with a woman's last caress The bitterness of my fatal hour.

Revenge was a bitter medicine. It didn't cure suffering. It didn't provide closure. It only hollowed you out further.

I'd say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.

I just sat there with the whole summer turning sour in my mouth.

Jilted My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

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!)

Still, a fanatic heart will ignore what it does not want to know," said Minasao. "It will excuse even that which cannot be excused in the need to find someone to share its bitterness.

T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it.

Scummer, pox and wound rot! roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!

It came to me, as I walked, how bitter the irony of the Book had been which had said: Herein the Truth. For it had a truth of its own in its bleached barrenness. What was truth except something which faded, lost its shape, grew unreadable and indistinguishable, at last a blank page for men to write on what they wished.

will not be defined by my past, nor will I harbor bitterness toward those who wronged me. Instead I will pity them, for they do not know compassion or forgiveness.