Quotes About Bitter

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isa. 5:20) If all that is evil is called good, what is there left to call evil, but one thing: those Christians that uphold the objective, eternal law of the Creator of heaven and earth.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

We have a saying in my culture. Dios no le diá, alas a los alacranes: God did not give wings to scorpions. No. They seem a little scary at first, but look how small they are, how bitter and ugly. They just have to crawl around in everybody else's mierda, waiting for the chance to sting someone. Pobrecita... don't it just suck to be a bottom feeder? Don't it just?

Our regret would not change what had happened, only make our grief for the big laughing youth more bitter.

Love is a pie and I am lucky enough to have almost every flavor in mine.

I loved her – my enemy – by choosing to not make her a substitute god to which I offered too many waking thoughts – bitter, acrimonious – as if they were a prayer.

Where yet my boys are, and that fatal She, Their mother, the cold partner who hath brought Destruction for a dowry—this to see And feel, and know without repair, hath taught A bitter lesson; but it leaves me free: I have not vilely found, nor basely sought, They made an Exile—not a Slave of me.

Nothing burns like the cold.

Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.

Beneath the gold, the bitter steel.

The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?

and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.

It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

You nights of anguish. Why didn't I kneel more deeply to accept you, Inconsolable sisters, and, surrendering, lose myself in your loosened hair. How we squander our hours of pain. How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration To see if they have an end. Though they are really Seasons of us, our winter …

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.