Bitter Quotes

The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. View quote
Lucretius
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship. View quote
Freddie Mercury
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. View quote
Colette
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. View quote
Maya Angelou
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. View quote
William Penn
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. View quote
Mary Renault
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. View quote
Denis Diderot
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. View quote
Erich Fromm
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! (Honoré de Balzac)
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. View quote
Bill Cosby
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! View quote
Dante Alighieri