Quotes and Sayings about Bitterness
"There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Anger, Work, Bitterness, Wounds)
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Travel, Anger, Bitterness, Hurt, Road)
"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
- James Broughton
(Related: Act, Bitterness)
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
- Edith Cavell
(Related: Patriotism, Bitterness, Hatred)
"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."
- Jimmy Chamberlin
(Related: Love, Success, Brother, Bitterness, Play)
"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."
- Bao Dai
(Related: Bitterness, Years)
"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: Love, Life, Bitterness)
"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Experience, Bitterness, Extreme, states, United)
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Success, Work, Bitterness)
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Bitterness, Temptation)
"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."
- Lucretius
(Related: Bitterness, Flowers, Taste)
"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."
- Lucretius
(Related: Heart, Bitterness, Delight, Flowers)
"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
- Robert G. Menzies
(Related: Truth, Bitterness, Enemy, Joy, Present)
"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it."
- Greg Norman
(Related: Life, Bitterness)
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
- Flannery O'Connor
(Related: Life, Bitterness)
"I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love."
- Tatum O'Neal
(Related: Anger, Love, Bitterness, Open)
"After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?"
- Robert Dale Owen
(Related: History, People, Bitterness, Future, Old, Past, World)
"Satire is focused bitterness."
- Leo Rosten
(Related: Bitterness, Satire)
"Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you."
- Donald Sutherland
(Related: Bitterness, Fire)
"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Beauty, Heart, Bitterness)
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
(Related: Hope, Bitterness, Deceit, Reality)
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Truth, Bitterness, Criticism, Man)
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
- Lech Walesa
(Related: History, Bitterness, Feeling)
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
- Lech Walesa
(Related: Bitterness, Frustration)
"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Enthusiasm, Goal, Bitterness)