Bitter Quotes

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

I love life too much to be bitter.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back.

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

Life is just to sweet to be bitter.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.