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“But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?"
I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.”
― Nevil Shute, Lonely Road

“One of the most agonizing problems of human experience is how to deal with disappointment. In our individual lives we all too often distill our frustrations into an essence of bitterness, or drown ourselves in the deep waters of self-pity, or adopt a fatalistic philosophy that whatever happens must happen and all events are determined by necessity. These reactions poison the soul and scar the personality, always harming the person who harbors them more than anyone else. The only healthy answer lies in one’s honest recognition of disappointment even as he still clings to hope, one’s acceptance of finite disappointment even while clinging to infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Sometimes, the eyes ask questions that the lips don’t dare to utter.”
― Ayodeji Ajagbe, What Happened To Helen

“Sweet people are nice to eat. Bitter people are nice to spit them out.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“My hearing was not attuned to the sound of such bitterness. I guess I should not have been surprised. I should have known that in an atmosphere where false promises are daily realities, where deferred dreams are nightly facts, where acts of unpunished violence toward Negroes are a way of life, nonviolence would eventually be seriously questioned. I should have been reminded that disappointment produces despair and despair produces bitterness, and that the one thing certain about bitterness is its blindness. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“The taste of success is so much sweeter when the tasteless have been so bitter and nasty to you!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“[...] that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim”
― Mary Ann Evans, Middlemarch

“A family of grapefruits will always be surrounded by bitterness.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Anger and bitterness can be like weeds. If you let them grow, pretty soon they take over and there ain't room for nothing else.”
― Connie Rose Porter, A Heart Full of Hope: An Addy Classic Volume 2

“You must be able to swallow bitter pills without becoming bitter.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

“The taste of success is so much sweeter when the tasteless have been so nasty to you!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“And so being a Negro in America is not a comfortable existence. It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered, the scarred and the defeated. Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan. Being a Negro in America means listening to suburban politicians talk eloquently against open housing while arguing in the same breath that they are not racists. It means being harried by day and haunted by night by a nagging sense of nobodyness and constantly fighting to be saved from the poison of bitterness. It means the ache and anguish of living in so many situations where hopes unborn have died.

After 348 years racial injustice is still the Negro’s burden and America’s shame.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Previous research showed that loud
music in a restaurant caused people to consume
more alcohol and soda, while slow music lead to
customers ordering more and staying longer. Dr.
Charles Spence, professor at Oxford University,
also found that certain types of music will bring
out certain flavors in the food.

For example, the experience of sweetness or bitterness in the food could be increased or decreased by simply changing the background music. Sweet sounds would increase the experience of a food’s sweetness, while “bitterâ€� sounds would increase the bitterness rating.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“God always works for growth. Growth is often unpleasant, even painful. Yet anything that happens can produce growth if the Spirit of God is welcomed and allowed to operate. At the same time, anything that happens can produce bitterness and decay if the Spirit of God is perceived as being absent. Our orientation to the Spirit of God determins whether we grow or decay.”
― Ruth Everhart, Ruined

“i drive 160 on the freeway in the hopes of a fiery escape my major x-mas wish and like everyone else i get shit life on a razor’s edge words that kill and guns that don’t”
― Scott C. Holstad, The Napalmed Soul

“The past year had shrunk the world. In the hot wash and to be honest, washing it had been a bad idea all along. It should have gotten trashed, instead, given the dirt it had accumulated.
~ As the moon began to rust”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“The world had changed its attire last spring and what it was wearing now was a perfect fit to what it was deep inside: a controlling old slag who didn't care about anyone’s wishes and ignored everyone who won't live by her rules. Tom was finished with that cunt: the world behind the fogged up windows. He used to live in one of his own: a dirty, but well-protected world that no one had ever entered and everyone who even tried was to get shot before they made it over the threshold.
~ As the moon began to rust”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“When life is bitter, you have no sweet dreams”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Can't you drink your coffee black, woman?"

She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye as she stirred. "I surely can't," she said. "I used to; but I found I simply cannot abide the bitter things no more.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“Take a moment and listen to your soulful voice. Experience your own pain. Take a deep breath as you reflect, and let the bitterness flow. Learn how to mourn. Bear in mind that even the deepest darkness
of despair dissolves when you carry the lamp of love within.”
― Anoir Ou-chad

“Fighting the battles of bitterness helps to win the war of the mind.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff Davis

“My answer would just be a
word. A word which doesn’t express a feeling, doesn’t express an
emotion, because I’m bereft of them. A word which would be nothing
but the sound made when you strike a cold, empty skull.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“Don’t shout, Yen, don’t be aggressive. And don’t drag up that story
from Vengerberg, we swore not to go back to it, after all. I don’t bear a
grudge against you, Yen, I’m not reproaching you, am I? I know you
can’t be judged by ordinary standards. And the fact that I’m saddened�
the fact that I know I’m losing you� is cellular memory. The atavistic
remnants of feelings in a mutant purged of emotionâ€�”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“I chose love over hatred, bitterness, and unforgiveness.”
― Aliette St. Hilaire, Who Could Have Imagined . . . Change Your Perspective, Transform Your Destiny

“Is it just me or is this wine
Terribly bitter
Which I’ll drink anyway
To dissolve the bad

Aspirin of day”
― Monica Ferrell

“A conversation based on truth, fairness, and harmony solves many problems that occur due to misunderstanding and lack of trust. Be aware that the conversation with fools and cheaters is nothing except a headache, a waste of time, and much more bitterness.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out.”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

“As she began "Dear..." she thought again that it did not matter which of the lot she addressed the letter to, for they presented to her the impermeable front of what she called "the family attitude" â€� suspicion of the worst based on insufficient knowledge of her life, and moral disapproval based firmly on their general knowledge of the weakness of human nature. Jenny couldn't possibly be up to any good, or she would have stayed at home, where she belonged. That is the sum of it, thought Jenny, and wouldn't their blood run cold if they could only know the facts? Ah well, the family can get under your skin with little needles and scalpels if you venture too near them: they attach suckers to you and draw your blood from every pore if you don't watch out. But that didn't keep you from loving them, nor them from loving you, with that strange longing, demanding, hopeless tenderness and bitterness, wound into each other in a net of living nerves.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools

“Bitterness sucks; it will make you empty. Fill it with acceptance; then growth is coming. See ya!”
― Nathaniel E. Quimada

“You've been angry all week, Simon, but you're taking it out on the wrong things. It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Dragons in the Waters