I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?
I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros. . . and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.
I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.