Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. Votes: 3
Charles BaudelaireI have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. Votes: 3
Merle TravisHappiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. Votes: 3
Joanne HarrisThat is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. Votes: 3
George GissingWe wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. Votes: 3
Salvatore QuasimodoWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. Votes: 3
Berthold AuerbachAnd bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. Votes: 3
Jean IngelowIn the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. Votes: 3
LucretiusParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. Votes: 1
John LockeI am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. Votes: 1
Franklin D. RooseveltRemorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauGreat artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. Votes: 0
Catherine Drinker BowenA friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanTruth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieIn life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. Votes: 0
Faye KellermanNever be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned Votes: 0
Johnnie Dent Jr.After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. Votes: 0
Diane AckermanAlthough will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative. Votes: 0
Marian KeyesFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamAFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceAh, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Votes: 0
Miles FranklinThere's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. Votes: 0
Erwin W. LutzerSin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit! Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneSatire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. Votes: 0
John DrydenIt is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country. Votes: 0
Greta GarboBetter be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit. Votes: 0
Omar KhayyamThe problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter. Votes: 0
Paul MonetteAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleEvery uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardI have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter. Votes: 0
Camille ClaudelDeath is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusWe can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings. Votes: 0
William Arthur WardResentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. Votes: 0
Neil KinnockI've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter. Votes: 0
Roy HattersleyA bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIllness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life. Votes: 0
James HolmanForgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Votes: 0
Lewis B. SmedesFor to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still. Votes: 0
Jan StrutherO conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriSix pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsAlone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. Votes: 0
Bayard TaylorI don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election. Votes: 0
Danny StrongJealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. Votes: 0
Dolores HitchensThe taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. Votes: 0
Max LernerAnd feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. Votes: 0
John MiltonThe natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. Votes: 0
Nick HornbyIt is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end. Votes: 0
Anthony Stafford BeerDisguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. Votes: 0
Laurence SterneUnfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case. Votes: 0
Hope SoloWhat holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. Votes: 0
Henry MillerThat bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! Votes: 0
Robert PollokIs it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThe laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiI try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I've lost. Votes: 0
Jenny LawsonNo good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. Votes: 0
Jose RizalBut O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareBeware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit. Votes: 0
Suzy KassemI never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter. Votes: 0
Nick VujicicOf all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonRefuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better. Votes: 0
Nicole KidmanOf all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonGod can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny. Votes: 0
Tony EvansBlack frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs. Votes: 0
Georg Traklunfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareThere is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. Votes: 0
OvidEven the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him. Votes: 0
Stephen MitchellOnly someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasI used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. Votes: 0
Carlos AlazraquiSin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning. Votes: 0
Richard SibbesOh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others. Votes: 0
Ralph PetersI regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory. Votes: 0
Irving KristolBehind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurIf the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead. Votes: 0
Jeffrey R. HollandHave you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted. Votes: 0
Tamzin OuthwaiteIt would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Votes: 0
Martha GellhornThe bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinTo die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Votes: 0
Erich FrommLife is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenThere is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? Votes: 0
RumiLove the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyI would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. Votes: 0
Alfred SchnittkeBooks are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. Votes: 0
Cassandra KingThe grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree. Votes: 0
ChrystosIt was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezLet us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future. Votes: 0
SukarnoI don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. Votes: 0
Bill HicksNo matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWas there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late? Votes: 0
Laini TaylorIâve found that God often lets us taste how sweet he is in our most bitter moments. Votes: 0
Andy MineoIt is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end. Votes: 0
Albert CamusI am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. Votes: 0
AdeleOur most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacMuch of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Votes: 0
Khalil Gibranthings that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat. Votes: 0
Josephine Winslow JohnsonI'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers. Votes: 0
Steve MartinThe only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience. Votes: 0
John Desmond BernalFor if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranLife is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. Votes: 0
Franz Liszt...the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind. Votes: 0
Victor HugoOne has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter. Votes: 0
Olive SchreinerAnd as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanNo, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you. Votes: 0
C. JoyBell C.I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftWhy do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart. Votes: 0
Lilith SaintcrowSo true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self. Votes: 0
Alfred EdersheimI don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. Votes: 0
Peter CameronI think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. Votes: 0
Billie Joe ArmstrongI would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? Votes: 0
Dean KoontzLove is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth. Votes: 0
Zelda FitzgeraldA lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultI give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar Votes: 0
James St. JamesPoverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity. Votes: 0
Eliza Lynn LintonI have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter. Votes: 0
Agnes SmedleyMaybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open. Votes: 0
Eva GabrielssonA man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanLife is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable. Votes: 0
Jason WongTo toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeWe are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. Votes: 0
Jacqueline CareyI'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees â And I found her bitter â And I reviled her. Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudI have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. Votes: 0
Steven Patrick MorrisseyI have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyIf you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you Votes: 0
Terry WaiteDie Medizinen gegen Unglück sind bitter in allen Apotheken - selbst bei den Epikuräern.
Marcuse, LudwigI get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. Votes: 1 Al Roker
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything. Votes: 3 Josh Homme
I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. Votes: 1 Al Roker
I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually. Votes: 1 Miranda Hart
Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken. Votes: 1 Charlyne Yi
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. Votes: 3 James E. Faust
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K. Votes: 1 Rory Bremner
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. Votes: 1 Adele
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. Votes: 3 Ernest Shackleton
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. Votes: 3 Nick Hornby
I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing. Votes: 1 Ellie Goulding
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Sachs
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. Votes: 1 Steven Patrick Morrissey
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. Votes: 1 F. Scott Fitzgerald
All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter. Votes: 1 Homaro Cantu
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Votes: 1 Chanakya
I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps. Votes: 1 Sam Riley
How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that. Votes: 3 Max Lucado
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. Votes: 1 Sara Teasdale
There are movie sites that love movies and there are movie sites that are just bitter people that just hate movies. I find Movieline to be in the latter. The tone is bizarrely hateful. Votes: 1 Todd Phillips
As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter. Votes: 1 Bruce Vilanch
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. Votes: 3 Tatum O'Neal
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. Votes: 1 Anne Lamott
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. Votes: 3 Kohei Uchimura
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Votes: 3 Lewis B. Smedes
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person? Votes: 7 Drew Barrymore
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. Votes: 1 Nelson Mandela
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them. Votes: 1 Maurice Jarre
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. Votes: 3 Rajneesh
The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same. Votes: 4 Haruki Murakami
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Votes: 1 Chanakya
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter. Votes: 3 John Updike
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are? Votes: 1 Joan Crawford
You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant. Votes: 1 Laura Donnelly