Bitterness Quotations

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

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

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.

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

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

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I wish Graham the best of luck. There is absolutely no bitterness on my part.

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing,

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion,

(My dad) had a great time (umpiring). He lived through a lot. He lived through the woes of segregation, and there's not a drop of bitterness from him or the other men I've interviewed throughout the years.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

My general feeling of the debate is that there are real efforts to put some of the bitterness that has come along over the last weeks behind us.

My first thought was that in some way, I needed to bring honor to God through this situation and not show any bitterness because that would not help my children at all,

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

McCain wants to make the GOP move in the direction of his issues, particularly campaign finance reform. There are two issues he'll squabble with Republican leadership on. First is his bitterness toward Bush for the attack ads from South Carolina on. Second, he can make the issue that he drew new voters into the party, and that the party will have to incorporate his platform if it wants to keep those voters.

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

She was rescued by her neighbors and hospitalized. Friends accompanied her during surgery and contributed blood. Her recovery took several months. She didn't let bitterness hold her back. She resumed teaching and studying international affairs.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thought leads to bitterness and a shriveled soul. The other leads to wisdom and growth.

I think the bitterness generated by this election should prompt people of good will in both parties to try and find common ground, or as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd put it, ""Make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

I would just like for him to go to court. I don't have any bitterness against him.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

You just hope the bitterness and rancor don't continue, and that everybody finds a peaceable ending. Watching a train wreck ? or listening to one ? isn't a great way to spend your morning.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

There are a lot of good teams there and just because you put on a Canadian jersey, it doesn't mean you're going to win. But that's the pride our country has. Those are the expectations and there's bitterness when you don't get it done. There's nothing else we wanted to do except win the gold medal. And a lot of countries, they just want to beat Canada. They played at a whole new level against us.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

I grow old on my bitterness.

Bitterness is so ugly.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

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

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Bitterness is a choice that usually comes after you encounter personal injustice. Choose Love. It is easier to live with.

Bitterness - Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.

These airplanes on 9-11 may have seemed to have come out of a clear blue sky but, in fact, these monstrous mosquitoes flew out of a swamp of bitterness and hatred and anger which exists in the Muslim world (because of) the injustice of western policy,

Offer all bitterness in the sacred Fire and emerge grand, great and godly.

When some of their sons started to have a hard time academically, it was a time of angst. The change into a bigger setting made it even more difficult. And you still have the bitterness of how it was done. It was done summarily and quickly and without recourse. And that left a very, very bitter taste.

First, there was no bitterness after Salt Lake City, she did what she needed to do.

There's a definite Boy-named-Sue bitterness emanating from Jayne. You don't cross him, you don't trust him. But you want him on your side in a fight.

This child who talks about scattering the seeds of peace over our land has told us from his grave we have to renew and recommit ourselves no matter how much provocation, no matter how much hurt, no matter how much bitterness or anger,

I'm most influenced by people I hate, since most everything I do stems from bitterness and anger. Off the top of my head, I think Gwen Stefani is pretty useless.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

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

Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.