Bitter Words Quotes

• That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Intellectual, Bitterness

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• Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

  Fred Rogers

  Relationship, Strong, Disappointment

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• A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teeth, Serpent, Poisonous

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• Senseless is the breast and cold
  Which relenting love would fold;
  Bloodless are the veins and chill
  Which the pulse of pain did fill;
  Every little living nerve
  That from bitter words did swerve
  Round the tortur'd lips and brow,
  Are like sapless leaflets now
  Frozen upon December's bough.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Pulse, Nerves

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• Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

  Sivananda

  Character, Evil, Temptation

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• Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there.
  Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you.
  That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Love, Letting Go, Farewell

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• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  William Blake

  Crush, Philosophy, Writing

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Order, Black

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.271, Faber & Faber

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• To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
  Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Hands, Use, Fruit

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.

  Henri Bourassa

  Regret, Believe, Men

  "Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail" by Henri Bourassa, p. A1, September 1, 1952.

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• Farewell's a bitter word to say.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Farewell, Bitter

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Men, People

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