#bitterness

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#envy #achievement

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#heart #poetry #poem

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. ↗

— Toba Beta

#bitterness #disappointment #take-root #vengeance #disappointment

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#brother #did #ever #had #him

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#around #away #bitterness #echo #element

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. ↗

— Seth Green

#bitterness #caught #four #getting #got

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

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#cultivation #enemy #forgotten #greatest #high

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#bitterness #i #love #myself #open