455 Quotes About Bitterness

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say.

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

I choose to feel better rather than feeling bitter.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are to infection. It is the curative agent that will help to fully restore your soul. It doesn't immediately remove the pain of defense but it does start you on the road to recovery.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.