Top 100+ Famous Bitterness Quotes

Famous Bitterness Quotes

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. – Maya Angelou

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God’s blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers. – Victoria Osteen

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

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it’s not the person we’re resenting it’s us. – Alana Stewart

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. – Sara Teasdale

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. – Nick Hornby 

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

Bitterness Quotes

Temporary anger is okay, but permanent anger will make you bitter and ruin your chance at happiness. – Sonya Parker 

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery O’Connor

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. – Aldo Gucci

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. – Terry Brooks

Surround yourself with people who make you a better person and not a bitter person.

It is bitter to think of one’s best years disappearing in this unpolished country. – Greta Garbo

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter. – Jay Wickre

Best Bitterness Quotes

To forgive to free yourself from the bitterness. 

Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. – Robert Burton

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife. – Confucius

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. – Henry David Thoreau

You don’t have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Bitterness Quotes

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. – Abdul Kalam 

When the root is bitterness, imagine what the fruit might be. – Woodrow Kroll

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Khalil Gibran

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned. – Johnnie Dent Jr.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. – Victor Hugo

Not too much, though there’s a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you. – Donald Sutherland

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. – Jean Jacques Rousseau 

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. – John Ortberg Jr

Bitterness Quotes

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind. – Debasish Mridha

You can be treated badly. But you do not have to be bitter. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. – Max Lucado

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. – Bible

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

There is enough heartache & sorrow in this life without adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness & resentment. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick 

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives. – Jerry Bridges

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

Bitterness Quotes

Bitterness finds pleasure in the spot from which bitterness springs. – Rick Yancey

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. – Myrtle Reed 

The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. – Jack Kerouac

When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. – Toba Beta

Lies will always be bitter in the end,no matter how sweet you made it at the beginning.

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth. – Michael Bassey Johnson

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man’s heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. – Madeleine L’Engle

There’s nothing more painful than something that’s superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there’s a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Great Bitterness Quotes

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. – Oswald Chambers

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery O’Conner

Let go of bitterness and learn to forgive. Revenge imprisons us, forgiveness sets us free.

It’s better to get busy than to stay bitter. – Charles F. Glassman

He held curls to be effeminate, and his own filled his life with bitterness.

When other people treat you poorly, keep being you. Don’t ever let someone else’s bitterness change the person you are. 

Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all. – Vironika Tugaleva

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close But the rose’s scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. – Francis Thompson

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. – Francis Bacon