Quotes About Bitterness

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

And it was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

Mary's thoughts were like a rain of bitterness and a dew of sweetness gathered in the hollows of a tree-root. A brimming over from them all would have escaped and vanished if she had tried to express them in any sort of speech.

There is love in your body but you can't get it out, it gets stuck in your head, won't come out of your mouth, sticks to your tongue and shows on your face. That the sweetest of words have the most bitter taste.

Message to my ex: congratulations you get to me so much everyday. I hate u so much I always think about it. Are you happy?

When a heart breaks, it screams out in pain. You may not hear a plaintive cry, but the silence is deafening. Betrayal is a bitter pill. The bitterness lingers, stifling out happiness and peace.

Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.

Forgiving another does not erase bitter past memories. Changing that memory through healing is our only hope for a positive future. Remember, though - a healed memory is not a deleted memory. One will always remember and never forget.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive.

Don't let bitterness, resentment or anger against someone take root in your life, it could be stopping you from your breakthrough. Learn to forgive and let go.

Learning how to forgive someone will help you move on easily rather than holding the bitterness that will just stuck you from where you are...

Let go of bitterness and learn to forgive. Revenge imprisons us; forgiveness sets us free.

When you forgive, you do not erase the memory. You simply choose to forgive to free yourself from the bitterness. The memory stays, not to be forgotten but to be remembered as a valuable lesson.

I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members.

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under the eaves. Yet the man in the brown suit was a figment of her imagination. I should have expected it. She was a spinner of yarns, wasn't she? A storyteller. A fabulist. A liar. And the plea that had so moved me—Tell me the truth—had been uttered by a man who was not even real. I was at a loss to explain to myself the bitterness of my disappointment.

I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.

That's what unhappy people do. They hate.

He was a foreigner here. There was no profit in discontent. He could not apply his bitterness. It was American-made and had no local standing. For the first time he realized what a dangerous thing he'd done, leaving his country. He struggled against this awareness. He hated knowing something he didn't want to know.