Bitter Quotes

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  People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Sweet

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

  Alcuin

  Sweet, Hunger

  "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness

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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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• I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

  Holly Near

  Sweet, Life Is Hard, Bitterness

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• I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

  Carlos Alazraqui

  Jealous, Be Kind, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Anger, Hard Work, Bitterness

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• 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.

  Jo Brand

  People, Criticism, Bitterness

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• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

  Star Jones

  Sweet, Benefits, Able

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Intellectual, Bitter Words

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• Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

  Joan Crawford

  Unhappy, Looks, Littles

  Interview in "The New York Times", 1972.

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

  Annie Dillard

  Birthday, Self, Ironic

  1974 Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.6.

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• I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Hate, Thinking

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• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

  Dante Alighieri

  Littles, Bitterness, Faults

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Choices

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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.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Adversity, Bitterness, Bears

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• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Children, Reality

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

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• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

  Robert Burton

  Friendship, Old Friends, Enemy

  Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

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• How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

  Albert Camus

  Men, Bitterness, Hard

  "Caligula: a drama in two acts".

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