Quotes About Bitterness

According to the sermon that night, God worked things out. Whether folks liked it or not was up to them. They could be bitter or they could be better. Bitter had the letter I in it, and every single time people put themselves first, it became a problem that created a bitter attitude.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick so that soon it is all over - but in another way. Only there was nothing to be mad at. Unless the store. But the store hadn't asked her to take the job. So there was nothing to be mad at. It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.

Your happiness makes me jealous and unhappy. I am a bitter and twisted human being.

Can I help you up?" No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor." Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up.

i hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.

I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

The single-minded focus on scoring political points over solving problems, escalating over the last several decades, has reached a level of such intensity and bitterness that the government seems incapable of taking and sustaining public decisions responsive to the existential challenges facing the country.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life;

Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.

A woman may be treated with a bitterness which is sweet to her, and with a rudeness which is not offensive.

Shledávám, že nad smrt je trp?í žena, jejíž srdce je plno osidel a sítí.

Quiere decir, malicioso? Sí, soy un poco malicioso –dijo Settembrini–. Lo que lamento es estar condenado a malgastar mi maldad en cosas tan miserables.

He had no illusions about what could be done in the darkroom to enhance a human image, but Erlys, who had always been beautiful, was beyond all that now. Years of bitterness about how little she loved him sloughed away and Merle understood, miles down the line, the simple truth that Erlys had no more been his than the unfortunate Bert Snidells's, and that to persist in that belief anymore was to approach the gates of the laughing academy.

LONG, long before Mrs. Lewis cooked for the Burbanks, a tree fell on Mr. Lewis in the woods and killed him in his "prime." Mrs. Lewis hoped to be one with him again in what she called their eternal home, but the suspended relationship left her with a mixed bag of acid sayings, bitter observations and chilly maxims.

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick? Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.

Beryl apoyó los codos sobre la mesa y releyó la carta. La voz parecía emanar del papel. Ya sonaba distante, como una voz que se oye por teléfono, alta, efusiva, con algo amargo en el tono. ¡Cómo la detestaba hoy!

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. MAYA ANGELOU