Bitter Quotes

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

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

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

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

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

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.

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.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

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

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

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

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

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.