Quotes About Bitterness

though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object;

though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object; and very much afraid I am, that whenever an obligation is joined to these two, indignation and not gratitude will be the product of all three.

He felt the old bitterness, which he had tried so hard to swallow, rise again in his throat, and he knew there are disappointments that last as long as life.

She drank deep at the well of self-pity, but found its waters brackish.

I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes, taunting me with the direst forebodings [...] My world of human beings had perished; I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

Success is a bitter fruit: sooner or later, what you have created turns against you, becomes your torment.

S? fii îndr?gostit.S? fii total singur.. AÈ™a începe...cea mai ducle È™i cea mai amar? tristeÈ›e pe care o poate încerca cineva.

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

I went to Cardiff on trial for six weeks and felt I did really well, but then they turned around and said they weren't going to sign me. It was a bitter pill to swallow because Hereford, where I was playing at the time, were scrapping their youth team, so I didn't have any other options.

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn't help make things any better.

If your level of anger or bitterness is not leading to a change in your life or relationship, it is because your ego is dominating.

Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,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."

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.

La amargura hace más daño en la vida donde se acumula que en aquel sobre quien se derrama».

Las palabras que tengo que deciros son más amargas que la ceniza. Entonces ¡escúpelas ya! No serán más dulces por no pronunciarlas.