Bitter Quotes - page 2

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. (Martha Gellhorn)
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. View quote
Robert Burton
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. View quote
Bill Hicks
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. View quote
Francis Bacon
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. View quote
John Steinbeck
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are? (Joan Crawford)
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. View quote
Franz Liszt
Sweet Mercy to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. View quote
William Wordsworth
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. View quote
Lucretius
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. View quote
Avigdor Lieberman
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. View quote
Elia Kazan
Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.... View quote
Sukarno
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. (Anna Akhmatova)
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. View quote
Chanakya
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. View quote
John Locke
Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. View quote
Jerome
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. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo