Quotes About Bitterness

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

...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.

Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Re?in ideea cu paharul. ?i dumneata ai fost un pahar în mâna mea. O cup? de ?ampanie, am spus "noroc" vie?ii, dar n-am apucat s? gust bine, c? am ?i sim?it am?r?ciunea.

El cinismo sólo en un residuo del odio, y aún no te odio.

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Unresolved anger is singled out as a sin that gives the devil an opportunity to derail and defeat us. Demons seize upon it to nurture bitterness and resentment, which wreak havoc in our souls.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life; love harmonises it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

You don't really heal from the wounds of sour love until you find something sweeter.

Accept or change; bitter or better, love or selfishness. These are the options in life that will define our character.

When we understand that it is the hand of God that dispenses them, and we know that it is our loving Father who humbles and wounds us, then our sufferings lose their bitterness. They even become sources of consolation.

Not that a lot of them had asked for it, or had listened to me. Not that I'm bitter about that, or anything.

Freud's theoretical differences with Adler and Jung ended in bitterness. The three parted company and each went his own way. At that point, Freud began to use the concept of introversion as a negative, implying a turning inward away from the world, in his writings about narcissism. This shifted the evolution of the concept of introversion away from healthy and toward the unhealthy, a misconception that remains to this day.

In the opinion of those delicate-eared persons, nothing could be more bitter or intemperate than Paul's language.