Bitter Quotes

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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.

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.

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.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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

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.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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.

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.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

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

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

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

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.