Bitter Quotes - Page 4

• She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sad, I Hate You, Hopeful

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Past, Persons

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 14, 2017

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Memories, Healing

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

  Max Ehrmann

  May, Vain, Compare

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Fate, Bitterness

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• I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Heart, Somewhere Else, Feelings

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• It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

  Greta Garbo

  Country, Thinking, Years

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

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• Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

  Clay Aiken

  Sweet, Opportunity, Years

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• The compulsion of fate is bitter.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Fate, Bitterness, Compulsion

  "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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• We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

  Brody Dalle

  Way, Bitterness, Drink

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• A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Healthy, Unity

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• I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Education, Strong, Teaching

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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Delay, Bitterness

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• I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

  Eric Burdon

  Bittersweet

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• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  Camille Claudel

  Two, Paris, New Life

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• I was briefly bitter.

  Margot Kidder

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Fun, Waiting, Economy

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• Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Air, Evil

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• The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

  Brenda Lee

  Children, Hate, Guy

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• So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

  Tom Lantos

  America, Police, Enlisting

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• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Pain, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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