Bitter Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Most jokes state a bitter truth.”
– Larry Gelbart

“I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.”
– Merle Travis

“The compulsion of fate is bitter.”
– Christoph Martin Wieland

“We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.”
– Lane Kirkland

“I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.”
– Kohei Uchimura

“Maybe people become bitter when they don’t know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.”
– Eva Gabrielsson

“That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.”
– William Thomas Green Morton

“Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.”
– Sima Qian

“Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.”
– Li Po

“I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived.”
– Osama bin Laden

“Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted”
– Chinese Proverbs

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”
– Bill Cosby

“You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
– Maya Angelou

“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
– Anatole France

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
– Victor Hugo

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”
– Oscar Wilde

“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.”
– Turkish Proverb

“Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.”
– Seneca

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
– Lewis B. Smedes

“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself”
– Max Ehrman

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”
– Oscar Wilde

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
– William Johnson Cory

“And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
– Erich Fromm

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