#bitterness

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#experience

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #family #forgiveness #suicide #death

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#friendship #regret #suicide #friendship

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

Why, that is why the gods made whores for imps like me. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#bitterness #got #love #tyrion #love

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all. ↗

— D. Morgenstern

#broken-heart #love #the-golden-bridle #love

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness. ↗

— Paul Harris

#bitterness #civil #destined #experience #extreme

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. ↗

— Bao Dai

#during #known #much #reign #twenty

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#life #love #releases