#bitter

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison, the roses he gave me all twisted black ↗

— Terra Elan McVoy

#bitter #bittersweet #heartache #heartbreak #sad

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest? ↗

— Janet Fitch

#damn #hope #life #live #praise

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lies #life #reality #sweet #tell-a-tale

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live. ↗

— Eric Bana

#bitterly #disappointing #how #live #normally

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bitter #cold #cruelty #fruit #love

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#bravado #bravery #creature #discovers #fool

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#constitution #extreme #fate #fathers #forgetfulness

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! ↗

— Albert Camus

#bitter #hard #how #man

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful