Bitter quotes
242 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going."
"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel."
"Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER."
"The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess."
"Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use."
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"Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country."
"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
"Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy."
"I don't get bitter, I just get better."
"Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet."
"I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life."
"Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
"Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit."
"For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal."
"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
"Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful."
"Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth."
"Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter."
"Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be."
"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
"Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness."
"How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!"
""You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin."
"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."
"The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain."
