Bitter Quotations And Sayings

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Bitter Quotations And Sayings


“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.”
– William Penn

“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?”
– Drew Barrymore

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
– Honore de Balzac

“Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.”
– Jimmy Carter

“I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.”
– Nicole Kidman

“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”
– George Grosz

“Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.”
– Margaret Cho

“You don’t become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.”
– Margaret Cho

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”
– Herbert Read

“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

“To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.”
– Elia Kazan

“I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.”
– Anne Lamott

“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.”
– Jo Brand

“Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.”
– David Ogilvy

“I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.”
– Cameron Diaz

“I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it’s meant to come.”
– Martha Plimpton

“It’s very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.”
– John Bolton

“I don’t want to clip on the armour every morning. I’ve seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I’m not going to change that one bit.”
– Nick Clegg

“It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.”
– Annie Dillard

“I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It’s always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren’t any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.”
– Richard Russo

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“I think the days of putting your feet up when you’re pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end – they don’t get to be on TV.”
– Amy Poehler

“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.”
– Franz Liszt

“I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.”
– Robert Wyatt

“I don’t have children that I’ve lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.”
– Warren Farrell

“See, the ‘On the Road’ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – ‘You must live life this way’ – and these guys were bored.”
– Garrett Hedlund

“I was briefly bitter.”
– Margot Kidder

“I like this life. I like it when it’s hard, and I like it better when it’s not, but I know you don’t get the sweet part without the bitter.”
– Holly Near

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