Bitterness

Famous quotes containing the word bitterness:

“Gay bells or sad, they bring you memories
Of half-forgotten innocent old places:
We and our bitterness have left no traces
On Munster grass and Connemara skies.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 7:11.