I think the one thing that a writer must avoid is bitterness.
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Quotes tagged ‘Bitterness’
Guilt is like salt. You put a little on, and it hides all the bitterness.
— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com
Hate is a burden. You don’t have to carry it with you.
— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, Reverend Doctor Anna Volovodov, Elizabeth Mitchell, imdb.com
It's very easy to look at the world and think, this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.
These two experiences taught me several lessons. Lesson that I have never forgotten. I did not want to learn these lessons but I found out that it isn’t what one wants in this world that one gets. Forse [sic] and might makes right. Perhaps things shouldn’t be that way but thats [sic] the way they ar…
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for…
Whether the rendezvous of separate histories will take place in a grand, harmonious concourse or be fraught with bitterness and acrimony will all depend on whether we have learned to recognize one another’s presence and are ready to accord human respect to every people.
I've been in love. It's painful, pointless, and overrated.
— Sean Reycraft, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder, imdb.com
All right! But hear me and hear me well—the day will come. Oh yes, mark my words, Seinfeld—your day of reckoning is coming. When an evil wind will blow through your little play world and wipe that smug smile off your face. And I'll be there, in all my glory, watching—watching as it all comes crumbli…
— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Newman, Wayne Knight, imdb.com
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness…
You say you packed my things and divided what was mine. You're off to the mountain top, I say her skinny legs could use sun.
It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…
By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness…
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren’t bitter. You aren’t cold. You’ve just retreated a little and been shy, and that’s okay.
I have always been an optimistic woman, but time has left me bitter, alone and sad.
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one he…