Bitterness Quotes

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

~ Marilyn Manson

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

~ John Piper

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

~ Davis Miller

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.

~ Upton Sinclair

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.

~ Luggs

Do…you…have…a…hard…time…finding…Steve’s dick?” she enunciated, enjoying Mary’s extreme discomfort. “He’s big as a fuckin’ house so I imagine it might be a bit of a problem.” The New Jersey accent that was still there after more than fifteen years in the south, resurfaced in her aggravation.

~ A.t. Hicks

She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.

~ Laura Kasischke

You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

~ Veronica Roth

Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You haven’t got a clue, Devon,” Akira spat out. “I would have chosen any life other than the one I have. I envy your naïveté. Your belief in the possibility of love. I know you don’t understand any of this or who I am, but I was like you at one time. I only wanted to see the best in people. To believe this world was filled with hope and kindness.” Her bitterness was apparent. “I thought compassion came with understanding…with seeing inside a person’s heart and knowing their true mind. But I was wrong. Nothing in this world is what it seems.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.

~ Sarah Holman

The writer as boxer says he develops by, learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

~ Davis Miller

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

~ George F. Will

Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.

~ Ira N. Barin

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

~ Victor Hugo

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The bitter heart eats its owner.

~ Eleanor Morse

Loving for the second time isn’t sweet; it’s bitter, and hurt more than the first.

~ Jessica E. Larsen

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting since she was fifteen. A rose and mauve lady that had not yet gathered her flesh and her beauty into dark clothes, and still waited, like a rose stripped of its petals, with her faded colors and her artificial smile, bitter as a grimace.

~ Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.

~ Toba Beta

One of the heaviest load so many people are carrying today is neither thoughts about things they lack nor things they wish to have, nor how to manage what they already have, but toxic words that have taken a greater portion of their thoughts and such words not just occupying a great part of their hearts, but also draining their very joy in life!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you.

~ Jason Aaron

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement. She looked at the woman in conflict and said, Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy. The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, And how do you do that? she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. By changing the way you think.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

~ Zane Grey

Acid filled Sara’s mouth.It wasn’t fair.That’s what Sara wanted to say. To scream at the top of her lungs.It just wasn’t fair.Lena wasn’t strong. She would bend, not break. She would recover from this tragedy the same easy way she recovered from every other tragedy before.Even if she lost Jared, Lena would always know what it felt like to have his child growing inside of her. She could always hold her baby’s hand and think of holding Jared’s. She could see her child laugh and learn and grow and play sports and do school projects and graduate from college and Lena would always, always remember her husband. She would see Jared in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. On her deathbed, she would find peace in the knowledge that they had made something beautiful together. That even in death, they would both go on living.“Sara,” Faith said. “What’s happening here?”Sara wiped her eyes, angry that she was back in the same dark place she’d started at this morning. “Why does everything come so damn easy to her?” She struggled to speak. Her throat clenched around every word that wanted to come out of her mouth. “Everything just opens up, and she always walks through unscathed and—” Sara had to stop for breath. “It’s just so easy for her. She always has it so goddamn easy.

~ Karin Slaughter

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

~ Kate Morton

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

~ Tarryn Fisher

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

~ Benjamin Hoff

Bitterness imprisons victory .

~ Kishore Bansal

Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.

~ Jason Aaron

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

~ Shan Sa

As impossible as this may seem (in infertility), try to reach outside of yourself and realize all of the things that you are able to do for now because you do not have children. There are seasons in life, and for now yours is an unfettered one. Allow God to use you in the present. The best way to help alleviate your pain is to try to help others alleviate their pain.

~ Sara Dormon

It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.

~ Kayla Krantz

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

~ Emma Donoghue

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.

~ Dieter F. Uchdorf

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

~ D. Morgenstern