Bitterness Quotes - Page 21

• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

  Anne Rice

  Disappointment, Children, Lying

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (I know, I know: he was quoting the Psalms, and who quotes a poem when being tortured? The words aren’t the point. The point is he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.)

  Christian Wiman

  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins. Then, in prayer, ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

  C. Scott Grow

  Prayer, Mistake, Loss

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• The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Self, Skins, World

  "Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Gregory Rabassa (p. 279), 1970.

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• Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Sweet, Pain, Memories

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• Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Alcohol, Stronger, Red

  Dennis J. Carlile, Arthur Rimbaud, Alexia Montibon (2000). “Rimbaud: The Works : A Season in Hell, Poems & Prose, Illuminations”, p.154, Xlibris Corporation

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• You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Grace, May

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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• Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Hurt, Jesus

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• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Giving, Shadow

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Hurt, Revenge, Coward

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• If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Fighting, Self

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Love, Jesus, Hatred

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• In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hurt, Revenge, Stupid

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• What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Dark, Vanity

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• Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Ideas, Important, Astonishment

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• You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Two, Issues

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• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  William Arthur Ward

  Happiness, Gratitude, Hate

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• Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love Is, Bridges, Differences

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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• Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Wine, Bitter

  Moses Ibn Ezra (1945). “‏מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /‏”

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Sight, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando”, p.290, Read Books Ltd

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• There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

  Barnabas

  Enemy

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