100 Quotes About Bitterness

Everyone has their moments. We all get angry, frustrated and sad from time to time. But some people take their sadness and anger and turn it into bitterness. This is a dangerous mindset that can consume your life and make you unhappy, unhealthy and unhappy Read more

Here are the quotes about bitterness that will help you celebrate the good in your life and make you feel better about your relationships today.

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Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. Fred Rogers
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It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. Hannah Harrington
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The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over. Susane Colasanti
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force...
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Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. Criss Jami
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Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth. Jim Elliot
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed...
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Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts. Craig Groeschel
Who is the man who can speak to the strong?...
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Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries. Derek Walcott
Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.
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Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery. Ahmed Mostafa
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we...
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Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free. Sharon Salzberg
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I know I am flaky, I accept that–and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from speaking! I may not be as wise as you in the ways of the world, I may not have wounds that run as deeply or scars to wear upon my chest like medals of valor, but at least I don’t retreat and hide the moment a soul comes within reach of my fingers! . V.S. Carnes
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He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything–more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope–scared him out of his wits. V.S. Carnes
Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.
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Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart. Lailah Gifty Akita
He said you were the only one who was bitter...
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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. J.d. Salinger
It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation...
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It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc. Sunday Adelaja
Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the...
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Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. John Cheever
I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're...
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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind! Charles Dickens
Brokenness a result of bitterness.
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Brokenness a result of bitterness. Lailah Gifty Akita
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store,...
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Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. Jacqueline Carey
Bitterness is captivity.
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Bitterness is captivity. Lailah Gifty Akita
A person who is too proud in love will suffer...
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A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end. Eraldo Banovac
No,
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No, " I say. "I didn't know that, " and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me. Nina Lacour
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If someone had asked him about his dreams on the morning of the barbecue, he would have said that he didn't want for much, but he wouldn't mind a lower mortgage, a tidier house, another baby - ideally a son, but he'd take another girl no problem at all - a big motherfucking boat if it were up for grabs, and more sex. He would have laughed about the sex. Or smiled at least. A rueful smile. Maybe the smile would have been exactly halfway between rueful and bitter. Liane Moriarty
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses...
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There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. Paulo Coelho
Life is like a painting, seems smooth and glorious but...
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Life is like a painting, seems smooth and glorious but you can see its dullness when you are near it. Samiullah Khan Mohmand
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Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness. Dada Bhagwan
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It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful. Xainee
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If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it. Vann Chow
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Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot. Jen Hatmaker
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You can spread joyfulness in any place of bitterness. Lailah Gifty Akita
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But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. John Steinbeck
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Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating. T.F. Hodge
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Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste Rasheed Ogunlaru
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You wouldn’t believethe sun had ever shone on this heart. Antonio Cisneros
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It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life. Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned Johnnie Dent Jr.
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The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you … your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option — a choice that didn’t hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon — but he couldn’t see one. . Rick Riordan
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It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps–” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need–” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines. Jasinda Wilder
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It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore. Kathryn Stockett
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Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs. Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick. Lydia Kwa
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That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. Nick Hornby
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Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live their lives accepting suffering as a way of life and they end up living their lives in perpetual self-inflicted pain without seeing a need to awake to take steps to their latent joy! If you are not feeling happy, wake up! There is a reason to be happy and there is a reason for action. There is something solemn, noble and distinctive that can make you happy! Awake! It is never the wish of God that His creation lives in indentured servitude! Pray! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own. Orrin Woodward
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If I wanted, I could come up with reasons to be angry with everyone I know; there are sins of commission or omission I could hang on every last person in my life… The truth is, I will never run out of people to indict. We are all guilty of so many failures to love well that if I wanted--and sometimes I do want-- I could find some fault or transgression in everyone I know that I could then use to justify writing them off. I could blaze that trail to hell if I wanted to, and just the thought of it scares me off . Russ Ramsey
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Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness Systenious Makhubele
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You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody. Unknown
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If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up. Seth Adam Smith
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In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it. Carson McCullers
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Richard Rohr
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. Richard Rohr
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True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways. Richard Rohr
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Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are to infection. It is the curative agent that will help to fully restore your soul. It doesn't immediately remove the pain of defense but it does start you on the road to recovery. Will Davis Jr.
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Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt. Will Davis Jr.
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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. Charles Dickens
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A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. Anthony Liccione
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Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point. Connilyn Cossette
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I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on — appreciate your wife! Jeremy Camp
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What is love for, if not to intensify our affections–both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter. John Piper
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Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. Jennifer Salaiz
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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. Virginia Woolf
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Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs? J.r.r. Tolkien
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Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments so ubiquitous the ocean’s salt seems thinly shaken, of letdowns local as the sofa where I copped my freshman’s feel, of failures as frequent as first love, first nights, last stands; do not warble of arms or adventurous deeds or shepherds playing on their private fifes, or of civil war or monarchies at swords; consider rather the slightly squinkered clerk, the soul which has become as shabby and soiled in its seat as worn-out underwear, a life lit like a lonely room and run like a laddered stocking. William H. Gass
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Regret comes in four tones that operate in unison to shape our lives. First, we regret the life that we lived, the decisions we made, the words we said in anger, and enduring the shame wrought from experiencing painful failures in work and love. Secondly, we regret the life we did not live, the opportunities missed, the adventures postponed indefinitely, and the failure to become someone else other than whom we now are. American author Shannon L. Alder said, ‘One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.’ Third, we regret that parts of our life are over; we hang onto nostalgic feelings for the past. When we were young and happy, everything was new, and we had not yet encountered hardship. As we age and encounter painful setbacks, we experience disillusionment and can no longer envision a joyous future. Fourth, we experience bitterness because the world did not prove to be what we hoped or expected it would be. Kilroy J. Oldster
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I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls. Ashly Lorenzana
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I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery. I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression. I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling. I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger. I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all. I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness. I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged. Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides. . Mary Oliver
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He remembered how nice the kids at Camp Half-Blood had been to him after the war with Kronos. Great job, Nico! Thanks for bringing the armies of the Underworld to save us! Everybody smiled. They all invited him to sit at their table. After about a week, his welcome wore thin. Campers would jump when he walked up behind them. He would emerge from the shadows at the campfire, startle somebody and see the discomfort in their eyes: Are you still here? Why are you here? It didn’t help that immediately after the war with Kronos, Annabeth and Percy had started dating … Nico set down his fartura. Suddenly it didn’t taste so good. . Rick Riordan
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Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be. Donna Lynn Hope
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Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget. Anthony Liccione
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Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all. Vironika Tugaleva
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Bitterness is a broken spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Bitterness block the sacred blessings. Lailah Gifty Akita
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...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... John Geddes
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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives. Paulo Coelho
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Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.'' I'm sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.' Poirot made a gesture. 'I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering. Agatha Christie
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I won but I wasn’t like Pat. Because–and why this should be I’ll never know– I never did a thing that wasn’t somehow touched with selfish, furtive hunger, with a private, annihilating need for recognition. Because I’m like a child in a fairy tale cursed from birth, and there has never been anything I can put my hand to without tainting it, no triumph so great or solemn that it doesn’t turn spoiled and ridiculous. Because, sooner or later, the darkness always gets in. . Austin Grossman
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A person is bound to experience troubling doubts when attempting to forge a viable philosophy for living. When we are young, the world appears as a dream, no desire is unattainable, and no goal is impossible. We do not entertain the notion that the world will blunt our passionate aspirations, we assume that the world will yield to our resolute will. Misfortune, poverty, illness, and death crush a person’s hopes, awakening us to parts of oneself and the world that we previously denied. When fate has spoken harshly we initially feel ruined, life appears as a bleak wasteland. We must then chose to accept a misery ridden existence or rally the courage and fortitude to turn our thoughts from bitterness and regrets, surrender vain notions that we are somehow special and immune from the terrors of a life when reality does not care a wit for our survival. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Don't fill your breath with bitterness. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita
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An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness… Assegid Habtewold
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As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups — adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people. Robert A. Caro
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Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup... Ntozake Shange
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I savor bitterness – it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance. Catherynne M. Valente
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Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. "It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has the tastes of a spoiled princess. I savor bitterness--it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance. Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love Johnny Rich
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It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break. Megan McKenna
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Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison of bitterness consume a soul. It was to be that time... Two worlds collide and find a common link. A plan was made, a price was paid and revenge was set in motion. Elizabeth Bourgeret
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It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there. Donna Lynn Hope
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There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. Ira N. Barin
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Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend. Carson McCullers
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Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys. Elaine Di Rollo
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Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive. Olaf Stapledon
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Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt. Steve Maraboli
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We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute in judgment, but they are as yet very immature in heart. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.. I know we who are young beginners in grace think ourselves qualified to reform the whole Christian church. We drag her before us, and condemn her straightway; but when our virtues become more mature, I trust we shall not be more tolerant of evil, but we shall be more tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for the people of God, and certainly less arrogant in our criticisms. . Charles Haddon Spurgeon