“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
CNN interview (2002)
Context: I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is — the way God has given it to me was just a platter — a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“In a knapsack of bitter life”
Farrokh Tamimi (1934–2003) Iranian poet and translator
Poet, The Time of Death
“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)
Mariah Carey (1970) American singer-songwriter
"Sunflowers For Alfred Roy", Charmbracelet, 2002. Dedicated to Carey’s father, Alfred Roy
Lyrics
“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.”
Mary Renault book The Praise Singer
The Praise Singer (1978)