Bitter Quotes

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We must never become bitter nor should we succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, for if this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless, by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

Loneliness is my hiding place, breastfeeding myself. What more can I say? I have swallowed the bitter pill, I can taste it. Life is real.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I cry, 'cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life, but take no form. I cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friends, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on?

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

The sweet of bitter barkAnd burning clove.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.