Bitter Quotes - Page 15

• What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Loss, Thinking, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 350, 1678.

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• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Men, Tongue

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back.

  Tom Kaulitz

  Beautiful, Love You, Love Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

  John Updike

  Mother, Women, World

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

  Max Lerner

  Democracy, Taste, Fullness

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• As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point - bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering.

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Fun, Laughing, Suffering

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• I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Beautiful, Sarcastic, Reason Why

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• It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

  Publilius Syrus

  Taught, Obedience, Humiliation

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• Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

  Thomas Szasz

  Pills, Moral, Mental Illness

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156, Routledge

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• There is healing in the bitter cup.

  Robert Southey

  Healing, Affliction, Cups

  Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Society, Battle

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.

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• The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

  Iris Murdoch

  Children, Childhood, Despair

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• Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

  Hafez

  Journey, Grieving, Life And Death

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• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

  Jose Marti

  Wine, Identity

  "US and Cuba keep their distance" by Stephen Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2009.

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• The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Solitude, World

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Wisdom, Moving, Cups

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• Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only according to opinion: the truth in real things is that there are atoms and void. 'By convention sweet', he says, 'by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.'

  Sextus Empiricus

  Sweet, Real, Science

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• I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Ocean, Sadness, Tears

  Song: I Will Not Forget You, 1991

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• Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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• Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  Omar Khayyam

  Fruit, Pleasure, Grapes

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.174, University of Virginia Press

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• We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

  Sukarno

  Fear, Men, Hydrogen Bomb

  Sukarno's speech at the opening of the Bandung Conference, as quoted in "Selected Documents: Some Aspects Concerning Progress & Principles of the Indonesian Revolution, Book 1" (p. 14), April 18, 1955.

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• 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.

  Waris Dirie

  Regret, Grateful, Love Life

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• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Autumn, Light, Games

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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