“In a knapsack of bitter life”
Poet, The Time of Death
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Farrokh Tamimi 7
Iranian poet and translator 1934–2003Related quotes
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
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“I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.”
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.
“Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.”
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (September 1995), p. 3
“Immorality and surliness makes the human's life miserable and bitter.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 392
General Quotes
“A world made to be lost, —
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.”
"The Hill of Venus".
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)