#bitter

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. ↗

— Mary Renault

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If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#call #consequences #dollar #her #life

Satire is focused bitterness. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#focused #satire

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#bitter end #destroyed #economy #end #fun

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#bitterness #gratitude #life #possibility #veil

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love. ↗

— Anne Carson

#desire #eros #eros-the-bittersweet #literature #novels

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#life #songs #life

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#bitterness #dying #harmony #spirituality #truth

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#cruelty #ironies #life

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#disability #disappointment #emptiness #feelings #fulfillment