Quotes About Bitterness

When people feel deeply judged by a rejection, their impulse is to feel bad about themselves and to lash out in bitterness. They have been cruelly reduced and they wish to reduce in turn.

I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

All my memories are poisoned

Bitter old women with a taste for blood. Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

Il y a donc des amours pareils à ces fruits de la Mer Morte qui ne vous laissent à la bouche qu'un goût de cendre impérissable.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II, i The Migration July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery, in which from time to time he goes to pray, a cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

They were all there.And all of them,these days,were as if drunk with bitterness,from desire for vengeance and longed to punish and to kill whomsoever they could,since they could not punish or kill those whom they wished.

I evo, naišla je ova gor?ina, kojom mi se prese?e srce nadvoje, da me podseti na ono što sam, zagledan u nebo, zaboravio: da je hlebac koji jedemo ustvari ukraden; da smo za život koji nam je dat dužni zloj sudbini - grehu, taksiratu; da sesa ovoga sveta na onaj bolji ne može pre?i dok se kao zrela vo?ka ne otkine, ne poleti u bolnom i strmoglavom padu, i ne tresne o tvrdu zemlju. Valjda se i raju nosi modrica toga pada.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. —NELSON MANDELA