Bitter quotes

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Life #Cups #Bitter

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Bitterness #Bitter #Hours

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
-- Albert Camus

#Impossible #Logic #Bitter

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Bitterness #Bitter

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
-- Alcuin

#Sweet #Bitter #Hunger

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Pages #Bitter #Blame

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Sweet #Memories #Bitter

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
-- Alfred Edersheim

#Self #Roots #Bitter

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Goal #Purpose #Bitter

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
-- Alma Katsu

#Would Be #Bitter #Fierce

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
-- Anderson Silva

#Mma #Victory #Bitter

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
-- Anderson Silva

#Victory #Gone #Bitter

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.
-- Andrew Dickson White

#Heartbroken #Catholic #Bitter

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Beautiful #Hands #Bitter

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

#Giving #Bitter #Glory

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Appreciate #Important #Bitter

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
-- Axl Rose

#Bitter #Blame #Angry

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Remembrance #Sorrow #Bitter

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
-- Beth Ditto

#Bitter #Shame #Charming

Your so bitter, like kitty litter.
-- Big Daddy Kane

#Revenge #Bitter #Retribution

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
-- Bil Keane

#Heart #Waiting #Bitter

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
-- Bill Bailey

#Dollars #Burning #Bitter

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.
-- Brent Weeks

#Killers #Bitter #Life Is

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
-- Carl Hilty

#Happiness #Believe #Bitter

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
-- Carlos Alazraqui

#Jealous #Be Kind #Bitter

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Voyages #Bitter #Tire

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Food #Bitter #Conversation

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?
-- Charles Frazier

#People #Why Not #Bitter

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.
-- Chris Kirkpatrick

#Lonely #Men #Bitter

The compulsion of fate is bitter.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Fate #Bitterness #Bitter

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Juice #Burning #Bitter

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.
-- Craig Kilborn

#Population #May #Bitter

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
-- Cynthia Lord

#Thinking #People #Bitter

I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Levels #Bitter #Funny Jokes

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
-- Danny Strong

#Thinking #Election #Bitter

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
-- David Clement-Davies

#Law #Bitter #Laws Of Life

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
-- David Jeremiah

#People #Bitter #Prison

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
-- David Leavitt

#Writing #Return #Bitter

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
-- Dean Koontz

#Lines #Bitter #Misanthrope

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
-- Democritus

#Excess #Bitter #Sweetest

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
-- Denis Diderot

#Lying #Bitter #Flattery

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
-- Earl Warren

#Diversity #Gains #Bitter

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
-- Elisabeth Marbury

#War #Names #Bitter

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#Love #Earth #Bitter

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
-- Ellis Peters

#May #Bitter #Substitutes

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.
-- Eric Burdon

#Bitter #Bittersweet

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.
-- Eric Butterworth

#Bitter #Results

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer

#Christian Inspirational #Bitterness #Bitter

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
-- Evan Esar

#Loss #Bitter

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Bitter #Chianti

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.
-- Gene Ween

#Waiting #Want #Bitter

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
-- George Eliot

#Bitter

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
-- Grenville Kleiser

#Bitter #Defeat

I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Disappointment #Bitter #Honestly

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
-- Hans Selye

#Faith #Purpose #Bitter

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Firsts #Bitter #Birth

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
-- Holly Near

#Sweet #Bitterness #Bitter

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
-- Homer

#Cups #Bitter #Fortune

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
-- Horace

#Mind #Cheerful #Bitter

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Dream #Disappointment #Bitter

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.
-- Irving Kristol

#Memories #Bitter #Young

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.
-- James Carlos Blake

#Mistake #Men #Bitter

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
-- Jamie Ford

#Sweet #Bitter

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

#Pills #Bitter #Loveless

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

#Bitter #Wells

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

#Brother #Way #Bitter

Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.
-- Jefferson Davis

#Country #Feelings #Bitter

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
-- Jeffrey Sachs

#Fun #Waiting #Bitter

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.
-- Jenny Lawson

#Trying #Bitter #Appreciative

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

#Winter #Bitter #Cold

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
-- Jo Stafford

#Music #Rocks #Bitter

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
-- John Bolton

#Negative #Bitter

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!
-- John Cowper Powys

#Giving #Fields #Bitter

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
-- John Dryden

#Greek #Bitter #Satire

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
-- John Milton

#Bitter #Fierce #Turns

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

#Bitter #Should

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
-- Jose Marti

#Wine #Identity #Bitter

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Bitter #Burned #Burned Out

Don't get bitter, just get better.
-- Justin Johnson

#Women #Get Better #Bitter

I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck
-- Kiersten White

#Night #Feelings #Bitter

Life is just to sweet to be bitter.
-- Kris Carr

#Sweet #Bitter #Life Is

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
-- Lady Gaga

#Cake #Jelly #Bitter

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
-- Lane Kirkland

#Leadership #Bitter #Staff

Most jokes state a bitter truth.
-- Larry Gelbart

#Bitter #States #Jokes

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Hate #Love And Hate #Bitter

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.
-- Leon Brown

#Joy #Negative #Bitter

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better
-- LL Cool J

#Get Better #Bitter

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?
-- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

#Joy #Woe #Bitter

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
-- Margaret Deland

#Sorry #World #Bitter

bitter is a bad way to live!
-- Margaret Haddix

#Way #Bitter

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
-- Margaret Oliphant

#Cups #Misery #Bitter

I was briefly bitter.
-- Margot Kidder

#Bitter

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

#Friendship #Evil #Bitter

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
-- Max Ehrmann

#May #Bitter #Vain

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
-- Max Lerner

#Democracy #Taste #Bitter

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
-- Maxim Gorky

#Guilt #Bitter #Speak

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

#Sweet #Bitter #Hunger

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.
-- Mel Gibson

#Stronger #Bitter #I Have Learned

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.
-- Mel Gibson

#Interesting #Stronger #Bitter

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
-- Merle Travis

#Sweet #Fruit #Bitter