Bitter Quotes - Page 10

• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Heart, Magic, Reimagining

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• I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Hurt, Frustrated, Firsts

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• Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Realization

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• My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
  My tears like vinegar,
  Or the bitter blinking yellow
  Of an acetic star.
  Tonight the caustic wind, love,
  Gossips late and soon,
  And I wear the wry-faced pucker of
  The sour lemon moon.
  While like an early summer plum,
  Puny, green, and tart,
  Droops upon its wizened stem
  My lean, unripened heart.

  Sylvia Plath

  Broken Heart, Summer, Stars

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

  Tamzin Outhwaite

  Broken Heart, Twisted, Clear

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• During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.

  David Halberstam

  War, College, Years

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water.

  Jay Bennett

  Moving, Fire, Long

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• Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

  Cassandra King

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

  Robert Goolrick

  Sweet

  Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.15, Algonquin Books

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• I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

  Ben Rector

  Heart, Perfect, Ashes

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• Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Use, Bad Times

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Regret, Failure, Past

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2014

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• You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

  Maya Angelou

  Cancer, Writing, Talking

  "Women Are Angrier Than Ever Before - And They're Doing Something About It" by Melissa Harris-Perry, www.elle.com. March 9, 2018.

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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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• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.

  James Otis

  Hands, Sweat, Divine Right

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• Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

  Hortense Odlum

  Disappointment, Frustration, Interesting

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• When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Goodbye, Mean, Fighting

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• Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

  Zayn Malik

  Moving, Reason, Happened

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• God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

  Tony Evans

  Destiny, Masterpiece, Your Destiny

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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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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• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Hands, Prejudice

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