Bitterness Quotes

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

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

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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

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

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

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

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

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

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

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.