Quotes and Sayings About Bitter
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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!
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
-- Agnes SmedleySource : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
-- AlcuinSource : "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.
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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.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
-- Alfred EdersheimSource : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.489, Ravenio Books
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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.
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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.
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One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
-- Anderson Silva -
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 -
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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 WhiteSource : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”
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Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
-- Anna AkhmatovaSource : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
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It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 115), 1968.
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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.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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Your so bitter, like kitty litter.
-- Big Daddy KaneSource : Song: Mortal Combat, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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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...
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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.
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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 HiltySource : Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.55, Read Books Ltd
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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
-- Carlos AlazraquiSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
-- Charles Dudley WarnerSource : Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria
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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?
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I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.
-- Chris Kirkpatrick -
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.