#bitter

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#awakes #bitter #consciousness #during #prosperity

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#bitter #bitter end #drivers #end #general

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#aspirations #bitterness #disappointments #hope #life

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting since she was fifteen. A rose and mauve lady that had not yet gathered her flesh and her beauty into dark clothes, and still waited, like a rose stripped of its petals, with her faded colors and her artificial smile, bitter as a grimace. ↗

— Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

#bitterness #imagery #love #age

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long? ↗

— Andy Stanley

#bitterness #forgiveness #resentment #anger

I love life too much to be bitter. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#i #i love #life #love #love life

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#death #deceived #die #even #find

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#extremely #feel #grateful #i #i feel

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#bitter #chasing #down #down the road #elusive

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie