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  1. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.
    book-quotelovelifesoul

  2. alain de botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.
    book-quotelifehopereality

  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
    book-quotecompassionconvictionopenness

  4. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father's bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me.
    book-quoteracismfamilyrace

  5. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.
    book-quotebitterness

  6. Euripides _ Medea and Other Plays

    The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
    book-quotelovebitterness

  7. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell.
    book-quotewarpridemisery

  8. James Patterson _ Private Sydney

    Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
    book-quoteguilthatredbitterness

  9. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.
    book-quotebitternessloss-of-belief

  10. A.S. Byatt _ Possession

    That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
    book-quotehuman-naturebitterness1990

  11. Patrick O'Brian _ Master and Commander

    The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy."
    book-quoteresentmentbitternessdepression
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