#bitter

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter. ↗

— Holly Near

#bitter #get #hard #i #know

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#bitterness #i #love #myself #open

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ↗

— George Orwell

#disbelieve #dislike #does #embittered #god

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. ↗

— Ovid

#death #delay #less #punishment #than

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

#bear #bitterness #borne #exertions #fruit

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #i think #love #pay #tears

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. ↗

— William Penn

#better #bitter #church #far #than

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#bitter #clear #come #dark #does