Bitterness Quotes - Page 25

• HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Europe, Lasts, Century

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.84, 谷月社

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• My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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• Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mind, May, Littles

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books

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• A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 193), October 1992.

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

  Alain de Botton

  Class, Envy, Feelings

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

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• The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Hatred, Curiosity

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

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• I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

  Merle Travis

  Sweet, Fruit, Hunger

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• These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Past, Sheep, Light

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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• Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

  Pat Dye

  Life Is Short, Attention, World

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• When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

  Laozi

  Enemy, Taoism, Making Peace

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• He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

  Johannes Tauler

  Spiritual, Fall, Men

  "The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)".

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• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  Lane Kirkland

  Leadership, Staff, Ends

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• It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Revenge, Hate

  Zig Ziglar (1998). “Breaking Through to the Next Level”

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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• To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

  Huineng

  Essence, Mind, Arguing

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brutality, Survivor, Violence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Wise, Powerful

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• Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be through sickness in someone else's life it can be through a bad attitude -or maybe through torn relationships and being angry all the time. I don't know how unforgiveness will manifest itself in your life, but what I can tell you is: it isn't worth it! All of us have done something we need forgiveness for.

  Thelma Wells

  Attitude, Lessons, Way

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Progress

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Beloved Community

  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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