“I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.”

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.”

“I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear… And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter."
"I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you."
"Why not me?”

“Through thick and thin, we're brothers to the bitter end. And if you're going to hell, buddy, I'm driving the bus.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“In a knapsack of bitter life”

“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”

“Please be at peace father,
I'm at peace with you,
bitterness isn't worth clinging to,
after all the anguish we've all been through.”

“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”

“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.”