Bitterness

Famous quotes containing the word bitterness:

    “He thought he saw an Elephant,
    That practiced on a fife:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A letter from his wife.
    “At length I realize,” he said,
    “The bitterness of Life!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “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–?)

    “Ah love is bitter and sweet,
    but which is more sweet
    the bitterness or the sweetness,
    none has spoken it.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)