#bitter

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

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

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#book-critics #jealousy #jealousy

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#bittersweet #regrets #sarah-ockler #sorry #action

The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#life #rain #life

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#fate #fear #life #life

If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known. If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them there. But the bitternesses they give to each person separately. They give you yours, Mary MacLane, for your very own. Don't say they never think of you. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#fates #gratitude #life

Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned a little more prudence, and was not going to make her call for the Shepherd if he could avoid it, but simply stood and looked at her and laughed and laughed again, the bitterest sound that Much-Afraid had heard in all her life. ↗

— Hannah Hurnard

#life