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Quotes About Bitter

After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept.
~ Radclyffe Hall
The bitter truth was that AIDS did not just happen to America—it was allowed to happen by an array of institutions, all of which failed to perform their appropriate tasks to safeguard the public health.
~ Randy Shilts
There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.
~ Rawi Hage
Anyone who reads the comics knows Maxima comes to Earth in search of a mate among the superhero population - specifically Superman. She's denied by him and she becomes very angry and bitter. We'll see how that history plays out in the show - every adaptation is a little bit different, but 'Supergirl' does a great job with the source material.
~ Eve Torres
I went out to the kitchen to make coffee—yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men. It
~ Raymond Chandler
I went out to the kitchen to make coffee – yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life-blood of tired men.
~ Raymond Chandler
It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.
~ Julian Barnes
Deep within me there is a radical, intimate, bitter and incessant boredom which prevents me from enjoying anything and which smothers my soul. It reappears at any excuse, just as the swollen corpses of drowned dogs pop to the surface despite the stones that have been tied round their necks
~ Julian Barnes
The man's expression grew darker and darker, and he puffed restlessly on his cigarette; he had apparently quite forgotten the original business. I had at first intended to tell him, and only him, something of the real facts in order to allay his opposition as much as possible, but there was apparently no longer any need to. Under my bandage I involuntarily smiled a secret, bitter smile. Once in a while it's good to give vent to one's anger.
~ K?b? Abe
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
~ Jimmy Carter
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
~ Antonio Machado
I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.
~ Wesley J. Smith
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
~ Anne Lamott
I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
~ Merle Travis
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
~ John Bolton
A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.
~ Margaret Deland
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
~ Ovid
Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.
~ William Butler Yeats
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
~ Izaak Walton
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris, Chocolat
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
~ Charles Kuralt