Quotes of: Bitter-truth Keyword

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

It wasn’t a normal joy, it was a bitter joy, but somehow the bitterness made the joy even more wonderful.

By Moonlight

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The flour tastes bitter to the mouse who has had enough.

Slovak

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but a...

Heroes and Villains

If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.

Brothers and Betrayal

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

The Bitter Kingdom

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

The Human Script

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Jakob Bohme

We can say the brotherhood of man, and pretend that we include the sisterhood of women, but we know that we don't. Folklore has it that women only congregate to bitch an absent member of their group, and continue to do so because they are to well awa...

The Female Eunuch

Do not rush to judge someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don't forget; mostly, it's not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil determines that; blame the source! Deal with the soil! Don't deal with th...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty,...

L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop)

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretc...

The Wise Man's Fear

The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.

Gaelic

The devil was good looking at eighteen, and course tea makes a bitter first cup.

Japanese

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Attempting Normal

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

A Place Like This

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness