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)

“Only after one has tasted the bitterest of bitterness can one be a superior person.”
—Chinese proverb.