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"I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
tags:
anger,
bitterness
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"The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love."
— Euripides (Medea and Other Plays)
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love."
— Euripides (Medea and Other Plays)
"Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)
"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. "
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
"And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love."
— Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)
— Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)
tags:
bitterness,
love
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"There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more."
— Joseph Heller
— Joseph Heller
tags:
bitterness,
envy
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "
— Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
"The Blue Jay's Lament --
Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets,
Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets,
Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail's egg or two--
All to be regurgitated for you.
Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and schemes,
Flying's not near as much fun as it seems."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)
Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets,
Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets,
Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail's egg or two--
All to be regurgitated for you.
Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and schemes,
Flying's not near as much fun as it seems."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)
tags:
bitterness,
irony
2 people liked it
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