346 Quotes About Bitter

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

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.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through to the end without having a beginning. You must begin by all means.

Self-hate takes a person only so far. Bitterness and self-loathing might spur a person towards seeking personal improvement. To live productively and happily one must find internal peace.

Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

Mouths that insist on sweet things will hardly escape the bitter experience of dental disfiguring.

If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran