“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.”
#1908, Part 20
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
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“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch'io sento?
Ma s'egli è amor, perdio, che cosa et quale?
Se bona, onde l'effecto aspro mortale?
Se ria, onde sí dolce ogni tormento?
Canzone 132, st. 1
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 253 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:
But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”
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