“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”

“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”

“Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.”

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”

“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“The East would always present that calm face of faint astonishment, unmoved at the anger, not understanding the bitterness.”

“bitter is a bad way to live!”

“A world made to be lost, —
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.”