Bitterness Quotes - Page 11

• Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

  Audre Lorde

  Grief, Ifs

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

  Dorothy Day

  Sorrow, Lasts, Problem

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.13, Image

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• Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

  Gary Smalley

  Drinking, Sick, Forgiving

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• Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

  Horace

  Inspire, Care, Able

  "Carmina", IV, 12, 19, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 874-77, 1922.

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• Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Devil, Pessimism

  Pope Francis' address to The College Of Cardinals, w2.vatican.va. March 15, 2013.

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

  William Penn

  Men, Water, Calm

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• Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Income, Purses, Slipping

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.587, Wordsworth Editions

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• Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Letting Go, Deep Love

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 23, 2011

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• There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Morning, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.119, Fawcett

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• My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bitter, My Thoughts

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Farewell, Half

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• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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• I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hate, Here I Am, Want

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.64, Tachyon Publications

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

  Oswald Chambers

  Sweet, Believe, Blessing

  "Faith: A Holy Walk".

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• all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Grief

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

  Craig Groeschel

  Mirrors, Roots, People

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• Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.

  Craig Groeschel

  Hurt, Roots, Forgiving

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• A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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• It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, May, Opponents

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

  Johnny Cash

  Gratitude, Hate, Positivity

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• Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Grieving, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 52: Sermons 2968-3019”, p.237, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison.  It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it.  Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.

  Lee Strobel

  Hurt, Pain, People

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pride, Envy

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

  Lena Horne

  Gratitude, Way, Break

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