Quotes About Bitterness

Did you know that the root of the word religion is religare? It means to reconnect. You see, there's a gash in the fabric of existence, and the only way to bind it together is to make new life. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.

When you're a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you're left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you're just the same as everybody else.

Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact of having been elected president would not change his unfiltered, apparently uncontrollable, utterly shoot-from-the-hip display of wounds, resentments, and ire.

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience, conduit rapidement à une destruction, pour soi-même comme pour les autres, de toute raison de vivre comme de tout futur possible, et vous plonge dans un ennui pesant qui finit par se transformer en une amertume atroce, accompagnée de haine et de rancoeur à l'égard de ceux qui appartiennent encore à la vie.

To refuse to do something because you've already done it, because you've already been there, rapidly leads to the destruction, for yourself as much as for others, of any reason for living, for any possible future, and it plunges you into an oppressive ennui that will eventually transform into atrocious bitterness, accompanied by hatred and rancor toward those who still belong to the land of the living.

Yksikään sivilisaatio tai aikakausi ei ole pystynyt kehittämään yksilöissään yhtä paljon katkeruutta. Siitä näkökulmasta katsottuna me elämme ennenkokematonta aikaa. Jos nykyajan henkinen tila on esitettävä yhdellä sanalla, se on epäilemättä katkeruus.

Bruno tenía razón, el amor paterno era una ficción, una mentira. Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Human reality, he was beginning to realize, was a series of disappointments, bitterness and pain.

Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Ninguna civilización, ninguna época han sido capaces de desarrollar en los hombres tal cantidad de amargura. Desde este punto de vista, vivimos tiempos sin precedentes. Si hubiera que resumir el estado mental contemporáneo en una palabra yo elegiría, sin dudarlo, amargura.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Blessings and curses are energies and they hit the ones closest to the source. So remember you will be the first one to be hit as you bless or curse. Bless also those who are not your well wishers, let them be surprised, dissolve all your bitterness and get MickeyMized!

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

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.

El ahorro, cuando se hace a costa de una necesidad insatisfecha, ocasiona en los hombres acritud y encono.

bliss, mean, wretched, and mingled with wormwood

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

If I sound bitter, that's because I'm still a little bitter.

This conflict between my aspirations and my bitterness is the essence of my story. It has not been resolved. It may never be.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life