Bitterness Quotes - Page 24

• We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Father, Real

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

  Paul Celan

  Holocaust, Black, Milk

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Dream, Suffering, Bread

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt breed bitterness and cynicism. For others it causes them to look deeply into themselves and into life itself in an attempt to understand the meaning beneath seemingly capricious or arbitrary happenings.

  Joseph Girzone

  Hurt, Pain, Powerful

  Joseph F. Girzone (1994). “Never Alone: A Personal Way to God”, Doubleday Books

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• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Ideas, Differences

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• Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

  Major Taylor

  Life Is Too Short, Heart, Men

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• He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Doors, Long

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• I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Missing, Stronger, Lessons

  "Golden girl Paula Radcliffe lowers her sights to the Olympic bronze". Interview with Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

  Kathy Griffin

  Jobs, Anger, Serious

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• Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

  Jane Goodall

  Anger, Echoes, Going Away

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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• The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

  Richard L. Evans

  Realizing, Judgment, Preparedness

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Ambition

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• Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

  Thomas Paine

  Honor, Poverty, Want

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• "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, School, Sorrow

  "The Cry of the Human" l. 7 (1844)

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• The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Sweet, Work, Rain

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• Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Character, Adversity, Responsibility

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• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  Ja Rule

  Block, Blessing, Flow

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• I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Enemy, Poison

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• Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

  Lee Ezell

  Anchors, Forgiving, Needs

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• Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Time, Art, Treasure

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Food

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

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• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Presidential, Foreign Policy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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