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Tag Name "Bitter" (731)

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Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.
Moses ibn Ezra
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Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
Pablo Neruda
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Ellis Peters
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Rumi
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
Laini Taylor
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Helen Hunt
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
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Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.
Elmer Rice
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Denis Diderot
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Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
Henri Nouwen
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The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.
George Greenstein
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Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
Emile M. Cioran
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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
George Herbert
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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
Emily Dickinson
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
Diane Ackerman
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The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.
George R. R. Martin
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.
Eric Burdon
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As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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