(237 quotes found)
“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear”
Joan Rivers
“It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife”
Confucius
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low”
Wallace Sayre
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.”
German Proverb
“The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.”
Aldo Gucci
“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”
Abdul Kalam
“From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.”
Lucretius
“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
“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
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
William Johnson Cory