Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
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Bitterness
163 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lech Walesa
Politician, Activist
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
Jentezen Franklin
Pastor, Author
"Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart."
Jo Brand
Comedian, Writer
"People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare."
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"You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness."
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"I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!"
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"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."
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"Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become."
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"Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness."
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"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."
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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure."
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"Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit."
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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
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"Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase."
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"Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness."
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"Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."
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"How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!"
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"The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds."
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"Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage."
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"
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"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
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"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness."
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"A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness."
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"It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife"
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