#bitter

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

#control #know #men #miseries #much

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#brother #met #waxed #way #word

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#sadism #skepticism #souls

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#bitter #business #get #i #jealous

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative. ↗

— John Bolton

#negative #personal #politics #very

I was briefly bitter. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#briefly #i

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. ↗

— John Green

#hurt #inspirational #love #inspirational

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#life-and-death #death

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#jealousy #jealousy