455 Quotes About Bitterness

Don't get so flattered. The only reason I follow you so closely is to never do what you are doing and then become who you are.

Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

Loving for the second time isn’t sweet; it’s bitter, and hurt more than the first.

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.

The Blue Jay's Lullaby— Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets, Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets,  Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail's egg or two—   All to be regurgitated for you.Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and schemes, Flying's not near as much fun as it seems.

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting since she was fifteen. A rose and mauve lady that had not yet gathered her flesh and her beauty into dark clothes, and still waited, like a rose stripped of its petals, with her faded colors and her artificial smile, bitter as a grimace.

I know it's best not to be bitter about some of the people I've known, she said, but some days that takes a lot of ignoring the facts.—Ignoring Facts

Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.

...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me...