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Quotes About Bitter

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~ Francis Bacon
The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.
~ Akshay Dubey
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals and to protect them when possible.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Alice Gray returned with a lacquered Japanese tray bearing two steaming cups, a sugar bowl, and a little pitcher of milk. I took a seat on the sofa. The coffee was strong and bitter. I lightened it with some milk. My hostess settled into one of the wing chairs. "Vee says Beth is missing," she said, sipping her coffee.
~ Janet Dawson
has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies."19
~ Edmund Morris
His louely words her seemd due recompence Of all her passed paines: one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre: Shee has forgott, how many, a woeful stowre For him she late endurd; she speakes no more Of past . . . Before her stands her knight, for whom she toyld so sore.
~ Edmund Spenser
Mind you, what is there to do with money except spend it when you've got it or be bitter about it when haven't?
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.
~ Albert Einstein
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
~ Clive Sinclair
Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
~ Samantha Fox
The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.
~ Ricky Hatton
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
~ Star Jones
I'm not a big sweet guy, I have more of a savory palate.
~ Reece Thompson
I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me.
~ Debi Mazar
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.
~ Richard Ashcroft
That was the thing about the butterflies. They could be kind when Celia felt bitter. They could encompass all the beauty of this world even when the skies smarted gray
~ Rene Denfeld
Correct. Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. My people were the original Athenians--the gemini. Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. I'm a Leo. No, stupid, Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
~ Rick Riordan
Correct. Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. My people were the original Athenians--the gemini. Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. I'm a Leo. No, stupid. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
~ Rick Riordan
Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.
~ Rick Warren
She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.
~ Kate Elliott