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Quotes About Bitterness

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
~ Allen Boyd
The financial cost20 was around £47 million, an appalling sum for those days. The cost in idealism, energy, and enthusiasm was probably higher. Bitterness, cynicism, disillusionment, emigration, censorship, clericalism and stagnation became the hallmarks of Irish society
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Lawrence was working under Churchill in the Colonial Office and growing increasingly embittered at the betrayal of British Governmental war-time promises made to the Arabs through him.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
If we did not feel the bitterness of his anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love.
~ Timothy Rogers
holding onto an offense will make you a bitter and unloving person, and you will inevitably damage all your relationships.
~ Timothy S. Lane
If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.
~ Toba Beta
I was giving up-- being realistic , as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.
~ Tobias Wolff
I think other than Jim Cornette, who's just, you know, a bitter old man who wants viewings, other than people like that guy who are just bitter, I could probably find whatever fan out there and show them some match that I've done that they would enjoy.
~ Ricochet
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the landmarks of my childhood are gone. I do kind of feel like a bitter old-timer, like, 'These kids don't know what it was like.'
~ Julia Fox
Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
~ Najib Razak
When we blanch some ingredients in ash water it removes all their bitterness and astringency, which has opened up a new list of ingredients that we had never considered as edible.
~ Jock Zonfrillo
But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering ? curious as it may sound to you ? is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity.
~ Oscar Wilde
They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.
~ Oscar Wilde
And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lo único que realmente demuestra es que nuestro futuro será igual a nuestro pasado, y que el pecado que hemos cometido una vez, y con amargura, lo repetiremos muchas veces, y con alegría.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you
~ Oscar Wilde
the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness, and the memories of pleasure their pain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Out of my nature has come wild despair; an abandonment to grief that was piteous even to look at; terrible and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn; anguish that wept aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb. I have passed through every possible mood of suffering. Better than Wordsworth himself I know what Wordsworth meant when he said—'Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark And has the nature of infinity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.
~ Par Lagerkvist
This Miss Wooster that I knew married a man named Spenser. Was she any relation? She is my Aunt Agatha, I replied, and I spoke with a good deal of bitterness, trying to suggest by my manner that he was exactly the sort of man, in my opinion, who would know my Aunt Agatha.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Surgit amari aliquid'.
~ P.G. Wodehouse