Bitterness Quotes - Page 13

• Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Doors, Negative Experiences

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• We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Discovery, Civilization

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Strong, War

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

  Alain de Botton

  Depressing, Mean, Expectations

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• As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational

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• It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Doe, Unhappiness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Cups, Disguise

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.209, Diversion Books

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• We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Ignorance, Compassion, Support

  "One Who Protects The Truth Will Be Protected By It" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Disappointment, Choices

  "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Humor, Men

  Francis Bacon (1962). “Works”

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Godly, Men, Land

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Once we got to the space where we understood that we have the most important thing in the world in common; no one else shared that commonality. Our son is priceless, and in order to give him the best, we have to be better to each other. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.

  Regina King

  Beautiful, Husband, Divorce

  "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Selfish, Night

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.

  F. Sionil José

  Mother, Sweet, Believe

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• Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I’m going to hold a lot of joy.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Light, Joy

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 27, 2015

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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

  Junot Diaz

  Self, Vortex, Oscars

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

  Graham Greene

  Disappointment, Hate, Selfish

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

  Aeschylus

  Clever, Fire, Honor

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• There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

  Hugh Prather

  Heart, Painful, Walking

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• She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Grateful, Past

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.432, Macmillan

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