Bitter

Famous quotes containing the word bitter:

“Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto
the bitter in soul;
Which long for death,”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 20–21)

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)