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Quotes About Bitterness

Life is about change. Change has both good and bad elements to it. You can either deal with the way things have changed and move forward, or you can let bitterness about what's lost in the past rob you of your future.
~ Terry Goodkind
That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.
~ Terry Pratchett
He reflected briefly that someone up there was watching over him. 'Thanks a lot,' he said bitterly.
~ Terry Pratchett
To not be engaged in the democratic process, to sit back and let others do the work for us, is to fall prey to bitterness and cynicism. It is the passivity of cynicism that has broken the back of our collective outrage. We succumb to our own depression believing there is nothing we can do.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Our experiences are different, yet they could have the same ending. Only you are young yet, you still have a choice. Do not hold this bitterness to you. Crush it and let it fly away. Both of you, start anew, leave the bitterness behind." When
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
When a person's speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply. Because he has so much suffering, he becomes full of bitterness. He is always ready to complain and blame others for his problems. This is why you find it very unpleasant to listen to him and try to avoid him.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
? ??i, ít ng??i bi?t nhìn b?ng con m?t thương yêu. Vì v?y h? ác Ä'á»™c vá»›i nhau, h? không tha th? cho nhau.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.
~ Howard Jacobson
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Hate eats the hater.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I know a thing about resentment: it is a poison you drink yourself, expecting others to die.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.
~ Karl Kraus
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.
~ Karleen Koen
A gift is not thrown away so lightly. Especially a gift from a friend. No, I will keep it, to remind me that not all friendships need to end in bitterness.
~ Kate Constable
Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. —MALACHY MCCOURT
~ Katherine Crowley
I think I don't like children because I hated being young.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
More than anything, he wanted them to know that even though they would grow up never knowing their father, it was not for the lack of his love for them. No, it was because he loved them so, because he was determined they have the life they deserved, that he had given everything to help secure it for them. That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.
~ Gary Whitta
I know it's best not to be bitter about some of the people I've known, she said, but some days that takes a lot of ignoring the facts. —Ignoring Facts
~ Brian Andreas
Elisabeth later always referred to this situation [her engagement and marriage] with great bitterness, saying, "Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again." "The Reluctant Empress", chapter 1
~ Brigitte Hamann
Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.
~ Brinton Crane