Bitterness Quotes - Page 20

• One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.

  Stormie Omartian

  Mean, Forgiving, Might

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• I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

  Robin Hobb

  Hurt, Writing, Boys

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.2, Spectra

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• We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Years, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

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• It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Trying, Ink, Unspoken Words

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

  Tanith Lee

  Lying, Joy, Lasts

  Christian Dörge (Illustrator), Tanith Lee (2016). “DELUSION'S MASTER (Special Edition)”, p.189, BookRix

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• old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Hurt, Believe, Grudge

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Dark Secrets: No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sorry, Crazy, Half

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• She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Laughing, Found

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.793, e-artnow

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• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Believe, Salad, Natural

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.48, Penguin

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• If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the health of Society, it is also vital for our personal well-being. Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. It does more harm to those that hold it than to those whom it is held against.

  Terry Waite

  Cancer, People, Soul

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• I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Privilege, Born

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.67, Macmillan

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sweet, Mind, Messages

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• There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Regret, Desire

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• If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

  Mark Twain

  Men, Age, Helping

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hate, Adversity, Guilt

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• Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. As soon as I decided that their career was their career and mine was mine and I would have to serve myself, my attitude changed. I'm as normal as you can be in these circumstances.

  Seth Green

  Attitude, Opportunity, Years

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• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

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• I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Loneliness, Thinking, Cruelty

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• Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

  Edith Cavell

  Hatred, Patriotism, Enough

  Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

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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

  Hate, Men, America

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• In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

  Emma Forrest

  Struggle, Envy, Soul

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