Bitter Quotes

“No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can’t have back, so they linger.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

“The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans

“For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me,
you are cinnamon that lingers
on the tongue and gives
bitter words
sweetening.
For me, you are the scent of
violins and vision
of valleys
smiling.
And still,
for me, your loveliness never ends.
It traverses
the world
and finds its
way back to me.
Only
me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.”
― Joshua Caleb

“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''

''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“It feels so bitter getting a kiss for a betrayal.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.”
― Karen Miller

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty."
"If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?"
"Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls