Bitter Quotes - Page 20

• O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Hate, Past, Men

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1096

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• Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Demand, Firsts

  A video posting, announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, barackobama.com, January 16, 2007.

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• I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

  Bhartrhari

  Pride, Fire, Land

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• What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

  R. D. Laing

  Song, Decay, Done

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Regret, Grief

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus”, p.14

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• You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

  Leonard Cohen

  Judgement, May, Rich

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.250, Omnibus Press

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• I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

  Enoch Powell

  Betrayal, Weakness, Depth

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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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, Bitter Words

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hate, War, Fighting

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fighting, Hard Times, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Survival, Unorthodox

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

  John Cowper Powys

  Giving, Fields, Moments

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Spring, Wind, East

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• No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

  Jose Rizal

  Sweet, Spring, Water

  Letter to the Young Women of Malolos, February 22, 1889.

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• So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

  Ysabella Brave

  Sorry, Talking, Feelings

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.

  Frederick Russell Burnham

  Night, Men, Enemy

  Frederick Russell Burnham (2016). “Scouting on Two Continents”, p.37, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Teacher, Lying

  "Exsurge Domine". Papal bull by Pope Leo X, 1520.

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• But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime Of fairy o'er this land of ours; When glistening leaves and shaded streams In the soft light of Autumn lay, And, like the music of our dreams, The viewless breezes seemed to stray 'T was bitter then to rend the heart With the sad thought that we must part; And, like some low and mournful spell, To whisper but one word farewell!

  Benjamin

  Dream, Flower, Farewell

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• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  John C. Danforth

  Self, World, Rivals

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 166, September 19, 2006.

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• After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Jesus, Gun, Trying

  Little Green Footballs weblog, April 12, 2008.

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• In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Humble, Unjust Criticism, Understanding

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