#bitterness

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter. ↗

— John Piper

#emotions #grief #death

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#john-steinbeck #lives #money #the-grapes-of-wrath #value

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#jealousy #jealousy

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

— George R.R. Martin

#bitterness #got #love #tyrion #love

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

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#bitterness #hard #heal #lot #out

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop. ↗

— James Broughton

#bitterness #cookie #get #i #into

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bitterness #build #frustration #hardly #helplessness

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bitterness #climb #enthusiasm #floor #fulfill

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