Bitter

Famous quotes containing the word bitter:

“They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:8-9.

“It is the human season on this sterile air
Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.

I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“The bitter sea of life is boundless; if one but turns around, there’s the shore.”
—Chinese proverb.