#bitter

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bitterness #build #frustration #hardly #helplessness

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness. ↗

— Paul Harris

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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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

— Herodotus

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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

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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. ↗

— Qin Shi Huangdi

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

— Jean Ingelow

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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. ↗

— Graham Greene

#death