#bitter

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

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#body #difficult #exacting #into #live

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

— Wentworth Miller

#extremely #feel #grateful #i #i feel

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#been #bitter #i #life #new

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. ↗

— Barack Obama

#bitter #cling #explain #frustrations #get

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#bitter #faith #into #life #long

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#lose #death

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter. ↗

— John Piper

#emotions #grief #death

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#experience