“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

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

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

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

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

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

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

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

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

“bitter is a bad way to live!”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Impostors

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

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman