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Quotes About Bitterness

Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas.
~ Pablo Neruda
No one will retrieve my lost heart amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness of the sun multiplied by the fury of the water, there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.
~ Pablo Neruda
Car il n'y a de beauté que dans l'illusion. Et qu'on atteigne ou non le but de sa course, l'amertume a presque le même goût dans les deux cas. Les fins se valent toujours.
~ Panaït Istrati
Pe cine sa acuzi, vai, daca nu "pe noi doi si ce amaraciune e mai mare decât sa-l ucizi pe cel pe care-l adori prin simplul fapt de a fi împreuna?
~ Pascal Bruckner
Tom laughed at the phrase sexual deviation. Where was the sex? Where was the deviation? He looked at Freddie and said low and bitterly: Freddie Miles, you're a victim of your own dirty mind.
~ Patricia Highsmith
They sat in silence until the howl of a distant coyote made her shiver. He sings for his mate, Cade reassured her. Does he think the sound of his loneliness will attract her? Lily asked wryly. I'm sure it is the beauty of his song. His voice contained almost a hint of a chuckle. I'm sure that's what he thinks. Her scoffing hid an undertone of bitterness, and Cade was silent for a while. Men often hide their fears with actions, he finally said. By
~ Patricia Rice
Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: They are like chimpanzees, she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. Eee! she said. I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.
~ Dan Chaon
Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
~ Dan Simmons
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
~ Charles Stanley
"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail."
~ Lamentations 3:19-21
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
~ Jane Goldman
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
~ Robert Menzies
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
~ Maya Angelou
Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
~ Ruben Papian
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
~ Terry Brooks
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
~ David O. McKay
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
~ Mario Puzo, Fools Die
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
~ Alain de Botton
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
~ Jane Goodall
Victory breeds hatred
~ Will Durant
To the sick man sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.
~ William Dalrymple
I also realized that God was not only just, but merciful. He knew we were weak and that we all found it easier to be stinkers than good sons of God, not only as kids but all through our lives. That clear picture, I'm sure, would be important to any kid who hates a teacher, or resents a person in charge. This picture of my relationship to man and God was what helped relieve me of bitterness and rancor and a desire to get even.
~ William J. Bennett
To his dying day, it is obvious, Hitler never forgave his teachers for the poor marks they had given him—nor could he forget. But he could distort to a point of grotesqueness.
~ William L. Shirer