Bitterness
The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
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Bitterness Quotations
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius
Bitterness Translations
bitterness in Dutch is bitterheid, verbittering
bitterness in French is amertume
bitterness in German is Verbitterung, Bitterkeit
bitterness in Italian is esacerbazione
bitterness in Latin is acerbitas, ruta, amaritudo
bitterness in Spanish is amargura
bitterness in Swedish is bitterhet
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