Bitter Quotes - Page 28

• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Interesting, Lovers

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sweet, Coffee, Wine

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.72, Bantam

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• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

  Oscar Wilde

  Blessing, Looks, Trials

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• Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

  Jerry Bridges

  Long, Suffering, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You”, p.66, Tyndale House

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• ...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!

  Frithjof Schuon

  Summer, Gratitude, Blessed

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Smooth

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

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• We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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• You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

  Brian Tracy

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Grateful, Looks

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• 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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• We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Hands

  "Give Us the Ballot". Address delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Call to Conscience), 1957.

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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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• We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Our World, Cynical, Hopeless

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  Francis Chan

  Sweet, Jobs, Keys

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• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

  John Calvin

  Wine, Men, Water

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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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• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Religious, Struggle, Political

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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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