Definition of Bitterness

Bitterness

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.

A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.

Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.

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Bitterness Quotations

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale

Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo Rosten

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.
Greg Norman

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Paul Harris

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
Jimmy Chamberlin

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.
Seth Green

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Bao Dai

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
Allen Boyd

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lech Walesa

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
Lech Walesa

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Bitterness Translations

bitterness in Dutch is bitterheid, verbittering
bitterness in French is amertume
bitterness in German is Verbitterung, Bitterkeit
bitterness in Italian is esacerbazione
bitterness in Latin is acerbitas, ruta, amaritudo
bitterness in Spanish is amargura
bitterness in Swedish is bitterhet

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