Bitter Quotes

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

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.

I love life too much to be bitter.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

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

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

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.

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

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

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

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

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

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.