“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks book The Elfstones of Shannara
Source: The Elfstones of Shannara
“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes (1997), p. 87
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Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest”
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London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 166–167
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) South African photographer
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Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 107.
“Aw you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty. -Adrian Ivashkov”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
