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Bitterness Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Nothing can be worse and more injurious than good-fortune that comes too late. It cannot give you pleasure in any way, and it deprives you of the right – the precious right – of complaining and cursing Providence. It’s a cruel and insulting trick – belated fortune.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain that was entrusted to you.”

Tara Brach

3. “One need not possess joys in order to taste their bitterness! Even to view them from afar off begets loathing of them. Thou must be fatigued by the monotony of the same actions, the length of the days, the hideousness of the world, the stupidity of the sun?”

Gustave Flaubert

4. “Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.”

Max Lucado

5. “How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don’t have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.”

Max Lucado

6. “Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.”

Max Lucado

7. “The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left.”

Max Lucado

8. “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

Francis Bacon

9. “Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.”

Charles Spurgeon

10. “I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.”

Joyce Meyer

11. “Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.”

Dwight L. Moody

12. “One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

13. “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

14. “Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.”

Zora Neale Hurston

15. “To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. I have no urge to make any concessions like that to the world as yet. I might be like that some day, but I doubt it. I am in the struggle with the sword in my hands, and I don’t intend to run until you run me. So why give off the smell of something dead under the house while I am still in there tussling with my sword in my hand?”

Zora Neale Hurston

16. “That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.”

Alfred Tennyson

17. “A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man’s own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.”

Aesop

18. “Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the character of the liberated prisoner: bitterness and disillusionment when he returned to his former life.”

Viktor Frankl

19. “Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.”

Bertrand Russell

20. “Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?”

Anne Rice

21. “An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.”

Anne Rice

22. “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest...”

H.P. Lovecraft

23. “Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.”

Agatha Christie

24. “Women are fiends-absolute fiends.”

Agatha Christie

25. “Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.”

Agatha Christie

26. “We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.”

Edmund Burke

27. “Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”

Jack Kerouac

28. “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

John Milton

29. “We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart’s grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love.”

William Butler Yeats

30. “He who made you bitter made you wise.”

William Butler Yeats

31. “A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.”

Sylvia Plath

32. “I’ve eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there’s no getting off.”

Sylvia Plath

33. “I’d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.”

Sylvia Plath

34. “The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

John Steinbeck

35. “But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.”

Simone de Beauvoir

36. “Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

37. “Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”

Maya Angelou

38. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

Maya Angelou

39. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.”

Maya Angelou

40. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

Nelson Mandela