Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religionpolitics of alienation and bitterness.
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.
Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.