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Quotes About Bitterness

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
~ George D. Prentice
My voice was so bitter I could taste it. "It doesn't matter. I thought you wanted to be with me. You made me want"—I struggled with words—"things I didn't think I would ever get. I thought we had a chance. But it's over now.
~ Ilona Andrews
They're overexcited, that's obvious. Admirably disciplined and, I think, no rebellion in their hearts. I swear here and now never again to take out my bitterness, no matter how justifiable, on a group of people, whatever their race, religion, convictions, prejudices, errors. I feel sorry for these poor children. But I cannot forgive certain individuals, those who reject me, those who coldly abandon us, those who are prepared to stab you in the back.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
What a beautiful horse! They really do have beautiful horses, by God." The young girls sighed. Then the bitter voice of some old man dozing by the stove called out, "Sure they do, they're our horses!
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Now and again he let out a sort of clipped, bitter laugh. "Good God, to have fought in '14 and then see this Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Irene Nemirovsky
He is crammed full of rage and hate and desire for revenge.
~ Iris Murdoch
The wound with which she travelled vibrated within her. She thought, I shall never have what I desire. I shall become bitter and defeated and dim, and I shall never really paint, I am a freak, a crippled animal, something to be put down, put to sleep, put out of its misery.
~ Iris Murdoch
You pushed me away mister. You rejected me. You tricked me and spoiled things between me and my true love. I've seen you before. Long ago, just lying there as you are now. Black, broken, dying, I was glad then and I'm glad now.
~ Irvine Welsh
Devers was morosely savage.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: "Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell." Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.
~ Isabel Allende
Continuaron acariciándose sin deseo y atormentándose con las súplicas y los recuerdos. Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.
~ Isabel Allende
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
~ David Sheff
Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
~ Edward Howard Griggs
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
~ Sara Teasdale
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
~ Myrtle Reed
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
~ Kathleen Norris
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~ William H. Walton
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.
~ Bible
Hatred is settled anger.
~ Cicero
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
~ Walter Raleigh
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
~ Bible
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
~ William Hazlitt