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)

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

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