Bitterness Quotes

“One of the most agonizing problems of human experience is how to deal with disappointment. In our individual lives we all too often distill our frustrations into an essence of bitterness, or drown ourselves in the deep waters of self-pity, or adopt a fatalistic philosophy that whatever happens must happen and all events are determined by necessity. These reactions poison the soul and scar the personality, always harming the person who harbors them more than anyone else. The only healthy answer lies in one’s honest recognition of disappointment even as he still clings to hope, one’s acceptance of finite disappointment even while clinging to infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“My hearing was not attuned to the sound of such bitterness. I guess I should not have been surprised. I should have known that in an atmosphere where false promises are daily realities, where deferred dreams are nightly facts, where acts of unpunished violence toward Negroes are a way of life, nonviolence would eventually be seriously questioned. I should have been reminded that disappointment produces despair and despair produces bitterness, and that the one thing certain about bitterness is its blindness. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“The taste of success is so much sweeter when the tasteless have been so bitter and nasty to you!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You must be able to swallow bitter pills without becoming bitter.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

“The taste of success is so much sweeter when the tasteless have been so nasty to you!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“And so being a Negro in America is not a comfortable existence. It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered, the scarred and the defeated. Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan. Being a Negro in America means listening to suburban politicians talk eloquently against open housing while arguing in the same breath that they are not racists. It means being harried by day and haunted by night by a nagging sense of nobodyness and constantly fighting to be saved from the poison of bitterness. It means the ache and anguish of living in so many situations where hopes unborn have died.

After 348 years racial injustice is still the Negro’s burden and America’s shame.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“There is the convenient temptation to attribute the current turmoil and bitterness throughout the world to the presence of a Communist conspiracy to undermine Europe and America, but the potential explosiveness of our world situation is much more attributable to disillusionment with the promises of Christianity and technology.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“To my surprise, she knelt down by the side of the grave. "Do you remember me, Father Monroe?" she asked quietly. "Catherine Goggin." "You threw me out of the parish in 1945 because I was going to have a child. You tried to destroy me but you didn't. You were a terrible monster of a man and wherever you are you should feel shame for the way you lived your life."
She looked as if she wanted to rip the stone out of the ground with her bare hands and break it over her knee but finally, breathing heavily, she stood up and moved on. I couldn't help but to wonder what might have happened to her if the priest had shown her compassion instead of cruelty, had he intervened with my grandfather and helped him realize that we all make mistakes. If the parish had rallied behind my mother instead of casting her out.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“We can allow life’s tragedies to make us bitter and resentful, or we can see them as tests of our character and humility, allowing them to make us ever thankful, not only for a life but for this very life—for my life and your life.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Be unique,' I read, 'be bold, too!'
But what they really mean is
'Don't be you.”
― Cheryl Seely Savage, Carve a Place for Me

“Após anos de magistério, a escola transformou você num indiferente. Com o passar do tempo o desencanto tomou conta da sua vida. A escola e os anos de prática docente te transformaram num operário. Anos e anos acreditando que você estava fazendo algo de significativo, mas vieram outros anos e anos e soterraram suas expectativas. A precariedade da escola venceu, e você estava cansado.”
― Jeferson Tenório, O avesso da pele

“I chose love over hatred, bitterness, and unforgiveness.”
― Aliette St. Hilaire, Who Could Have Imagined . . . Change Your Perspective, Transform Your Destiny

“Is it just me or is this wine
Terribly bitter
Which I’ll drink anyway
To dissolve the bad

Aspirin of day”
― Monica Ferrell

“A conversation based on truth, fairness, and harmony solves many problems that occur due to misunderstanding and lack of trust. Be aware that the conversation with fools and cheaters is nothing except a headache, a waste of time, and much more bitterness.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out.”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

“As she began "Dear..." she thought again that it did not matter which of the lot she addressed the letter to, for they presented to her the impermeable front of what she called "the family attitude" – suspicion of the worst based on insufficient knowledge of her life, and moral disapproval based firmly on their general knowledge of the weakness of human nature. Jenny couldn't possibly be up to any good, or she would have stayed at home, where she belonged. That is the sum of it, thought Jenny, and wouldn't their blood run cold if they could only know the facts? Ah well, the family can get under your skin with little needles and scalpels if you venture too near them: they attach suckers to you and draw your blood from every pore if you don't watch out. But that didn't keep you from loving them, nor them from loving you, with that strange longing, demanding, hopeless tenderness and bitterness, wound into each other in a net of living nerves.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools

“Bitterness sucks; it will make you empty. Fill it with acceptance; then growth is coming. See ya!”
― Nathaniel E. Quimada

“You've been angry all week, Simon, but you're taking it out on the wrong things. It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Dragons in the Waters

“The biggest reason for choosing happiness is that there is no reason to choose bitterness.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Does she still show affection by swatting a fly with a brick?” His words reeked of bitterness as one of his thrills was taking jabs at his ex-wife every chance he got.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Jealousy is a creator of demons.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Sweetness in marriage is what you make while bitterness is what is created”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Bitterness brings in blockages. Let it go and set yourself free.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Learn from your past and be better because of your past," she would say, "but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold onto it. Don't be bitter.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“It is very difficult to make people understand the impersonal indignation that a decay of writing can cause men who understand what it implies, and the end whereto it leads. It is almost impossible to express any degree of such indignation without being called 'embittered', or something of that sort.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“The truth is, Josie’s faith has grown, and mine has stayed lukewarm. She keeps trying to include me, but part of me just wants to stay in the bitter, complaining stage. In some ways, it’d easier.”
― Leslea Wahl, Charting the Course

“The truth is, Josie’s faith has grown, and mine has stayed lukewarm. She keeps trying to include me, but part of me just wants to stay in the bitter, complaining stage. In some ways, it’s easier.”
― Leslea Wahl, Charting the Course

“And he said...

...sourness stems from the bitterness of the root.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In the bitterness of the present, the seeds of future sweetness lie concealed.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I