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Quotes About Bitterness

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
~ John Steinbeck
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. But watch it, mister. There's a premium goes with this pile of junk and the bay horses - so beautiful - a packet of bitterness to grow in your house and to flower, some day. We could have saved you, but you cut us down, and soon you will be cut down and there'll be none of us to save you.
~ John Steinbeck
every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness.
~ John Steinbeck
hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
~ John Updike
There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.
~ Unknown
They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
~ Robert Byrd
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
~ Joan Rivers
Bitterness ruins your chance at finding happiness.
~ Unknown
Karma is the most bitter pill to swallow. And the unpleasant after taste it leaves in your mouth is the receipt - to not treat others the way that you don't want to be treated. And to never take anyone for granted including the blessings that are all around us each and every day.
~ Unknown
No, I'm not a bi.... I just don't care anymore. I'm sick of taking down my walls for people that want to hurt me. I'm sick of caring about people who don't even know I exist. I've been hurt so many times that I don't want it to happen anymore. So maybe I'm a bit bitter, but I'm not a bi.... Just hurt.
~ Unknown
Don't be bitter; bitterness enslaves you, but God is prepared to remove your bitterness and replace it with His peace and joy.
~ Unknown
Hatred is inveterate anger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hatred is settled anger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.
~ Margaret Landon
De ahí nacen las grietas, como un cristal que se resquebraja y sigue en pie. No se envejece día tras día, se envejece de golpe, de un modo amargo. Una descarga que nos fulmina, nos ensucia... Nos tiñe el rostro de amargura.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
bitter is a bad way to live!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.
~ Marilyn Manson
Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.
~ Debbie Ford
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
~ Zig Ziglar
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
~ Douglas V. Steere
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.
~ Lorrie Moore
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
~ Lord Chesterfield