Bitter Quotes - Page 25

• I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

  Rick James

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Hands, Curiosity, Friendly

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• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Passion, Soul, Deception

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• We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Thinking

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• Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

  Bill Hicks

  Laughter, Swallowing, Littles

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Writing

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• I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

  Larry Doby

  Hurt, Men, Talking

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• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Giving, Teeth

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1119, Delphi Classics

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• I went to this dance with some of my friends and there were kids saying `I know who you are - you`re Aaron Carter!` It doesn`t bother me if people confuse us. I know we`re very different. I am who I am. I don`t wanna say I have a temperbut I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I`m bitter. I won`t show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I`ll be your friend again!

  Jesse McCartney

  Kids, Who I Am, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Lonely, Men, Old Man

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• Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

  Allen Weinstein

  Goal, Purpose, Disputes

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• Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Prison, Classroom

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• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

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• Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.

  Errol Morris

  Dream, Reality, Demand

  "Documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ Premieres at Telluride, Screens at Toronto" by Anne Thompson and Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. August 31, 2012.

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• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  Garet Garrett

  Moving, Recovery, Forever

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

  Allan Pinkerton

  Fate, Law, Punishment

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• Fools, their wisdom weak,
  are their own enemies
  as they go through life,
  doing evil
  that bears
  bitter fruit.

  Juan Mascaro

  Evil, Enemy, Fool

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• Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

  Bette Midler

  Spring, Winter, Snow

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• The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Sweet, Burning, Bitterness

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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• Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Slavery, Bitterness

  Laurence Sterne, John Hall-Stevenson (1792). “A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy”, p.97

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• Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

  John Milton

  Memories, Despair, Slumber

  John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76

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• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, School, Sorrow

  "The Cry of the Human" l. 7 (1844)

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