Bitter Quotes

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

~ Guy De Maupassant

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

~ C. Joybell C.

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I break out laughing. I frown.I yell and scream. Sometimes,if one jokes and giggles,one causes war.So I hide how tickled I am.Tears well up in my eyes.My body is a large city.Much grieving in one sector.I live in another part.Lakewater.Something on fire over here.I am sour when you are sour,sweet when you are sweet.You are my face and my back.Only through you can I knowthis back-scratching pleasure.Now people the likes of you and Icome clapping, inventing dances,climbing into this high meadow.I am a spoiled parrot who eats only candy.I have no interest in bitter food.Some have been given harsh knowledge. Not I.Some are lame and jerking along.I am smooth and glidingly quick.Their road is full of washed-out placesand long inclines. Mine isroyally level, effortless.The huge Jerusalem mosque stands inside me,and women full of light.Laughter leaps out.It is the nature of the rose to laugh.It cannot help but laugh.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

~ Lucretius

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

~ Larry Gelbart

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

~ Martha Gellhorn