Bitterness

Famous quotes containing the word bitterness:

“The one who rides knows not the trials of walking; he who is full does not know the bitterness of hunger.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are “stuck” and can go no further.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

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