Bitterness Quotes - Page 18

• Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Sweetness Of Life, Sweetness, Depends

  Humor & Caricature magazine, September 1995.

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• There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Heart, Rabbits, Rabbit Holes

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

  Lorrie Moore

  Forgiveness, Art, Confused

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.59, Vintage

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• I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

  Agnes Smedley

  Bitter, Hours, Left

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Ah love is bitter and sweet,
  but which is more sweet
  the bitterness or the sweetness,
  none has spoken it.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Sweet, Love Is

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Cutting, Hands, Cake

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sex, Feelings, Century

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.60, e-artnow

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• The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Successful, Irritation

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

  Peter Abrahams

  Hate, Heart, People

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• When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.

  Lee Ezell

  Forgiving, Enemy, Today

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• In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

  Richard Cecil

  Sorrow, Affliction, Trouble

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• Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Laughter, Heart, Weakness

  H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: Cleopatra”, p.103, Essential Library

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• I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Selfish, Taken, Heart

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

  Heather Small

  Wise, Goes On, Live And Learn

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• It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

  Confucius

  Strife

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• This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hurt, Thinking, Hatred

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• How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Suffering, Doe, Cost

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• A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

  Aesop

  Men, Consciousness, Misconduct

  Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

  Cornel West

  Soul, Driven, Righteous

  Source: genius.com

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• Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Abortion, Kind, Alienation

  "The Way Things Ought To Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, 1992.

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Selfish, Boredom, Tranquility

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Air, Feelings

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• We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Hysteria, Confusion, Despair

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Disappointment, Wind, Bridges

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