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• Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

  Terry Brooks

  Travel, Hurt, Anger

  Terry Brooks (2002). “The Sword of Shannara Trilogy”, p.565, Del Rey

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• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Children, Reality

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Solitude, Pardon, No Hope

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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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• It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

  William Penn

  Church, Would Be, Bitter

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• We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

  Brody Dalle

  Way, Drink, Victoria

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• Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

  Richard Russo

  Feelings, Different, Hints

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• Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Moving On, Taught Us, Experience

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• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sorry, Apology, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Anger, Bitter

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• Bitterness is so ugly.

  Amy Heckerling

  Ugly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Letting Go, Past, Greatness

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• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Imagination, Would Be, Cosmic

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Healing, Giving

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• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Entropy, Remedy, Humans

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

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• I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Cynical, Political

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• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Fate, Constitution

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• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

  Ernestine Rose

  Successful, Wife, Suffering

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• It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

  Greta Garbo

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

  Brenda Lee

  Children, Hate, Guy

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

  Erich Fromm

  Sympathy, Death, Wise

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge

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• Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Air, Evil

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