Bitterness Quotes

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

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.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

Everybody wants to get into the act!

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.