“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
#1908, Part 20
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016) American actress, singer, and dancer
On staying optimistic (as quoted in “FLASHBACK: Debbie Reynolds Recalls Poor Upbringing and How Gene Kelly Helped Her Career in Early ET Interviews” https://www.etonline.com/news/206086_debbie_reynolds_recalls_poor_upbringing_and_how_gene_kelly_helped_her_career_early_et_interviews (ET Online; 2016 Dec 29)
“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch'io sento?
Ma s'egli è amor, perdio, che cosa et quale?
Se bona, onde l'effecto aspro mortale?
Se ria, onde sí dolce ogni tormento?
Canzone 132, st. 1
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 253 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:
But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”
Jan Struther (1901–1953) British writer
THE CHOICE, BETSINDA DANCES AND OTHER POEMS