Quotes about Bitterness

And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything. If you walked with her in Hyde Park now it was a bed of tulips, now a child in a perambulator, now some absurd little drama she made up on the spur of the moment.

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

Bitter love is better than sweet hate.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honour. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labour and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.