“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
“It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.”
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 4, An Alphabet of Models, p. 115.
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Charles Darwin book On the Origin of Species (1859)
"Introduction", page 6 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=21&itemID=F373&viewtype=image <br class="br">On the Origin of Species (1859)
William Carlos Williams book Al Que Quiere!
"Libertad! Igualidad! Fraternidad!"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)
Context: Brother!
— if we were rich
we'd stick our chests out
and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us. There is no more pride
in horses or in rein holding. We sit hunched together brooding
our fate. Well —
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left way
and —
dreams are not a bad thing.
Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer
Variant: We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Source: Leadership Is an Art
“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Arthur C. Clarke book The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 284
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)