Bitterness Quotes - Page 19

• My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

  Sidney Lanier

  Artist, Criticism, Contemporary

  8 Copy quote

• Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

  Rhys Ifans

  Kings, Queens, Grief

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

  John Leo

  Wish, Multitudes, Seeing

  4 Copy quote

• I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

  Rob Lowe

  Couple, Looks, Judgment

  9 Copy quote

• I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Government, Next Day, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

  8 Copy quote

• Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Reality, Views

  8 Copy quote

• In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

  Peter Drucker

  Hero, Pay, Next

  4 Copy quote

• Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

  Jim Crace

  Writing, Careers, Ends

  4 Copy quote

• You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Nasty, Achieve, Young

  32 Copy quote

• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Twilight, Mind

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hurt, Thinking, Harmony

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.16, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.

  Ruben Papian

  Long, Emotion, Problem

  36 Copy quote

• Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Heart, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Children, Crazy, Despair

  32 Copy quote

• The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Joy, Trying

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Crush, Jesus, Powerful

  14 Copy quote

• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.465

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Pain, Past

  30 Copy quote

• There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

  Hafez

  Pleasure

  23 Copy quote

• Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, War, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and opinions”, Wings

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

  Luke Davies

  Resentment, Wonder, Empty

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.38, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

  Abraham Verghese

  Regret, Heart, Mean

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.255, Random House India

  9 Copy quote

  Show source