Quotes About Bitter

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered. [Dean Harbinger Harrow]

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

It must have been a very dreary smile and ironic in the extreme; for my heart was filled with bitterness and could express itself in no other way.

Her sobs grew worse, more bitter, until finally I bent and kissed her soft neck and cheeks. Winter plums. Plums from an enchanted wood where the fruit never falls from the boughs. Where the flowers never wither and die.

Out of the darkness and bitter earth of the monastery, Amadeo came into the light.

Their lives are interconnected like thorny vines forever circling and recircling the same tree. Your life might have nothing to do with their bitter struggle.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

Bitter," he said. "That's a good sign," Jesper said knowingly. They all looked at him. "Medicine is supposed to taste bad," he explained. "The worse it tastes, the better it is for you. Everyone knows that.

The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.

I didn't know a computer could sound bitter.

Will glanced over his shoulder, and saw Kit's eyes drop a second too late to hide the intensity of his regard. Relief and pity warred in him, and a cold white flame he knew for bitter, possessive love.

Rejection of the racial equality clause was a particularly bitter grievance for members of the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and their spokesman, W. E. B. Du Bois.)

the purpose of all these rules and regulations was to end what Plato saw as the worst aspect of normal Greek politics: the bitter class conflict and clashes among competing factions. In the average Greek city, rich and poor were literally out for each other's blood

ONCE, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed. One evening I seated Beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter. And I cursed her.

I explained my magical sophisms with hallucinations of words! I ended up believing my spiritual disorder sacred. I was lazy, proof of my fever: I envied the happiness of animals—caterpillars, symbolic of the innocence of limbo; moles, virginity's sleep! I grew bitter. I said farewell to the world in a ballad.

He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.