Quotes About Bitterness

But the boy only muttered bitterly, You do not understand—you are too old—you understand nothing.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Failure is always a bitter pill to swallow, Mr. Crepsley said.

the gimmickry is simply a device, a defense, to obscure the black, blinding, murderous rage and sorrow at the core of this whole story, which is both too black and blinding to look at ---avert your eyes!--- but nevertheless useful, at least to the author, even in caricatured or condensed form, because telling as many people as possible about it helps, he thinks, to dilute the pain and bitterness and thus facilitate its flushing from his soul

The author would also like to acknowledge the makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into mutant by freak accident, with the mutant thereafter driven by a strange hybrid of the most rancid bitterness and the most outrageous hope to do very, very odd and silly things, many times in the name of Good. The makers of comic books seemed to be onto something there.

It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.

light sharp bitter tint

there is another launch against the United States." "Wish we had made that message clearer before the Day," Makala said softly, her voice filled with bitterness.

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

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

A kiss, long as my exile, as sweet as my revenge.

There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.

El amor es humo, soplo de suspiros: se esfuma, y es fuego en ojos que aman; refrénalo, y crece como un mar de lágrimas. ¿Qué cosa es, si no? Locura juiciosa, amargor que asfixia, dulzor que conforta.

There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their gain! Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

una debole amarezza screziata di orgoglio avvizzito. [...]

si odiano sempre i testimoni della propria umiliazione e della propria inutilità. [...]

relations had since curdled into Roquefort cheese

Sabía que mi reclamo había pasado de moda pero al rencor le gusta ser anacrónico