Bitter Quotes

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

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.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I love life too much to be bitter.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

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.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

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.

I was briefly bitter.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

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.