Bitter Quotes

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

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

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.

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.