#bitter

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. ↗

— Lucretius

#food #man #others #poison

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#bittersweet #everything #feel #had #happen

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#cultivation #enemy #forgotten #greatest #high

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#bitterness #i #love #myself #open

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#bear #bitterness #borne #exertions #fruit

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#bitter #clear #come #dark #does

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. ↗

— Li Po

#bitter #earth #flies #heaven #high

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#being #bitter #could #feel #i