Bitterness Quotes - Page 8

• How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

  Albert Camus

  Men, Bitter, Hard

  "Caligula: a drama in two acts".

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• I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Taken, Expression

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• Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, Pride, World

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• All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

  Camille Pissarro

  Passion, Sadness, Joy

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• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

  Rumi

  Courage, Challenges, Foundation

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• The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

  Stephen Baxter

  Cutting, Past, Envy

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• And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Sadness, Opposites

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Writing, Gay

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Sweet, Burning, Bark

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Disappointment, Today

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2016

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• The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

  Gordon Dalbey

  Forgiveness, Grief, Humble

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• Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Spiritual, Peace, Love Is

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• Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

  Craig Groeschel

  Toxic, Needs, Emotion

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• Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Frustration, People, Feelings

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “Unglued Participant's Guide: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.8, Zondervan

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Failure, Positivity, Ice Skating

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Stronger, Spirit

  John Bevere (2010). “The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Grateful, Eye, Heart

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.80, Image

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• The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hate, Heal, Harder

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• In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Character, Soul, Suffering

  Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.97, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Sadness, Compare

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• You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Hurt

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• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Twilight

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

  Rubin Carter

  Vessel

  Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press

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