Bitter Quotes - page 6

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery. (Jean Rhys)
I'd always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth. View quote
Alma Katsu
I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter. View quote
Kris Carr
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. View quote
Max Ehrmann
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. View quote
Joanne Harris
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination. View quote
Ann Brashares
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. View quote
Ann Brashares
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets. View quote
Waris Dirie
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. View quote
Lewis B. Smedes
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. (Alfred Schnittke)
Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening. View quote
Arthur L. Herman
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment. View quote
Chris Sarandon
I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. View quote
Carlos Alazraqui
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. View quote
David Leavitt
There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing. View quote
Danny Dyer
Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open. View quote
Eva Gabrielsson
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set. View quote
Gene Ween
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter. View quote
Holly Near
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. (Jan Peter Balkenende)
There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent. View quote
Jeff Garcia
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store. View quote
Joel Osteen
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow. View quote
Julian Baggini
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. View quote
Kohei Uchimura