Bitter Quotes

That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.

~ T.f. Hodge

Bitterness leads to misery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

~ Julian Barnes

No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water,there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.

~ Pablo Neruda

Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

you clutter my mindthoughts of you, thoughts of me with youthoughts that keep me from restthat ull me to sleep at nightyour words are like butterthey're smooth and they're richand they make the bitter bits better

~ Madisen Kuhn

For me,you are fresh waterthat falls from treeswhen it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers on the tongue and givesbitter wordssweetening.For me, you are the scent of violins and visionof valleys smiling.And still,for me, your loveliness never ends.It traverses the worldand finds its way back to me.Only me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

~ Suzy Kassem

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

~ Suzy Kassem

You will soon regret the bitter words you fumed when you were angry.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked.

~ Toni Morrison

Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The winners of life's game always set and have goals in focus that they score to fulfill their purposes of existence and making the planet earth to celebrate joy, the losers make life bitter for others by tormenting their senses of joy and peace!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Life's always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it, forget the days of the bitter Bile! Leave the torture behind and give a Smile! Keep smiling, Don't just do it just for a While!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.

~ James Crumley

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People always give higher priority to newer one, whatever it is.. Relation or thing.

~ Kurbhatt

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

~ George R.r. Martin

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

~ J.k. Rowling

I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.”Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. “Yeah,” he said bitterly. “I guess we will.

~ Rick Riordan

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles... Smile, make it your life's style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I nearly killed a rabbit is not an ingredient for preparing broth or pepper soup. I lost it may seem bitter; but I nearly won it is bitterest! Remember, if it must be done, then it must be done well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

How you brew your life is how it’s gonna taste on your tongue. You have the choice to make it bitter or sweeter. It all depend on the actions that you take day in day out.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through to the end without having a beginning. You must begin by all means.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

~ Joseph Conrad

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

~ Anthony Liccione

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

~ Munia Khan

Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

~ Shannon L. Alder