Bitter Quotes - Page 17

• If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Giving, Glory, Finding Peace

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Cups, Illness

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground.

  Sterling W Sill

  Jesus, Would Be, Return

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• You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

  Freddie Mercury

  Loneliness, Men, Pounds

  "Rock On Freddie". Interview, www.queenarchives.com. 1985.

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• The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

  Democritus

  Excess, Sweetest

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• Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet

  S.C. Stephens

  Sweet

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• Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

  Seth Rollins

  Wwe

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• Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Struggle, Wages

  Karl Marx (1964). “Early writings”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

  A. A. Milne

  Winning, Men, Games

  1919 Not That It Matters.

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• The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.

  Colin Powell

  Retirement, Jobs, War

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Sweet, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”

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• Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Wine, Bitterness

  Moses Ibn Ezra (1945). “‏מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /‏”

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• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Butterfly, Night, Long

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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