Quotes About Bitterness

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey.

Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….!

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer.

O guilt is an embit tering thing! It keeps the soul in a continual fear of hearing ill news from heaven; and a soul in fear is not in case to relish the sweetness of a mercy.

have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

I lay in the dark thinking about the bitterness inside the pig scarer and the sadness that was there, too, and I figured they were probably twins joined at the hip.

We all have secrets. With them, we're like squirrels with nuts. We hide them away, and bitter though they may be, we feed on them.

When Emil returned from the Second World War blind and disfigured and wanting only to feed in isolation on the meat of his bitterness, his family had purchased and completely renovated a farmhouse that was a stone's throw from the edge of town.

Now Violet had let herself go until she could barely make it out of the house to buy her Oreos and booze. But if you looked closely, beneath the folds of flesh ravaged by bitterness and drink, you could see the lovely creature she had been, and what she had been then was just as bitter and vindictive as what she was now.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

I've found that God often lets us taste how sweet he is in our most bitter moments.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives