#bitter

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#bitterest #called #enough #forth #hours

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#heals #much #pain #physician #self

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ↗

— Sima Qian

#bitter #criticism #cures #effects #good

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ↗

— Chanakya

#bitter #bitter truth #every #friendship #self-interest

Four girls about Mira's age were standing out on the deck on the upper level of the ferry. They were wearing hoodies, sweatpants and jeans. One of the girls was staring at the screen on her phone. She was talking. He called, but then said he wasn't going to come out or whatever. They sipped out of Starbucks cups and bottles of water. The wind was in their hair and the sun was in their eyes. Because they were alive I wished they were dead. ↗

— Mark Gluth

#children #death #age

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

#charming #delicious #everything #frightful #horrible

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#bitter #country #disappearing #think #years

Most jokes state a bitter truth. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#bitter truth #jokes #most #state #truth

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

You've got to take the bitter with the sour. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#got #sour #take #you