After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Bao Dai

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

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

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

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.
Greg Norman

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Paul Harris

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert G. Menzies

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lech Walesa

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

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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