Bitter Quotes - Page 6

• Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

  Will Durant

  Gentle

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

  Terry Waite

  Love, Life, Family

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• Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

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• If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Burned, Burned Out, Ifs

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• There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Ripe

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• No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  War, Names, No War

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Sweet, Sweet Things

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

  George Leonard

  Sweet, Real, Effort

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Party, Humble, Pie

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• The wife, or bitter half.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wife, Half

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• There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Pleasure, Pure

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• [it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Wise, Hatred, Might

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Hatred, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.239

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• Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Waste, Negative

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• So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

  Tracy Chapman

  Love, Apples, Justice

  Song: All That You Have Is Your Soul, Album: Crossroads, 1989

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

  Jason Wong

  Cute, Coffee, Tea

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• Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

  Publilius Syrus

  Death, Children, Too Late

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• Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

  Muhammad

  Wisdom, Islamic, May

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• We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Government, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Real, Deceit, Bitterness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.438

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• Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Adversity, Race, Survival

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