“I'm very bitter about how I've been treated, there are some things I want to bring into the light, I'm glad I came here. This is the longest time I've been straight and sober. But if I wanted to get high tomorrow - my drug of choice-I could do it in this penitentiary. It comes with the territory. But I fight the feeling.”
Rick James
“If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you”
Yiddish Proverb
“Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with thorns.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks
“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.”
Paul Valery
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
