Billy Graham

Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

American Clergyman

Drew Barrymore

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

American Actress

Joel Osteen

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Jimmy Carter

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

American President

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

American Physicist

Leo Sayer

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

English Musician

Anita Bryant

It's easy to be bitter. I'm human in that respect.

American Singer

Kris Carr

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

American Author

Nicolas Sarkozy

French Statesman

Larry Gelbart

American Writer

The taste sense of 'bitter' often suggests an unpleasant or undesirable flavor.

Negative Connotation

Bitterness can be an intense taste that overpowers other flavors.

Sensory Intensity

'Bitter' is often used to contrast with sweet flavors.

Contrast Sweetness

When describing feelings, 'bitter' suggests strong, lasting negative emotions.

Emotional Intensity

'Bitter' often implies that the hurt or anger has been held onto for a long time.

Long-Term Resentment

'Bitter' can describe strong negative feelings resulting from relationships, like breakups.

Intensity in Relationships

'Bitter' as a noun specifically refers to a type of hoppy beer in British English.

Specific Beer Type

Understanding 'bitter' as a beer type is important in British pubs and culture.

Cultural Association

Used as an adverb, 'bitterly' amplifies the emotion or situation described.

Amplified Emotion

'Bitterly' can be used to exaggerate a statement, adding dramatic effect.

Hyperbolic Speech

 when his father stole a sheep, Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another. During his travels, Confucius almost starved, he was briefly imprisoned, and his life was threatened at several points. But he was not bitter.

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 and found two rare beetles underneath. He’d just taken one beetle in each hand when he spotted a third beetle. Stashing one of the insects in his mouth for safekeeping, he reached for the new specimen – when a sudden spray of hot, bitter fluid scalded his tongue.

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 It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes to convert toxic waste products into this bitter greenish liquid.

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 Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?" Like that, you know.

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 for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills. She had sought meaning and made her travail into a crucial identity. But if the people I met were less bitter than I'd anticipated about being in prison,

How the worst moments in...

 the bittersweet part of letting go the bitter part is gone it's like I'm trusting this person with what I think this dog wants and I think they all want homes it's not how many times you're happy it's how deeply happy you can be

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 bitterness resentment they're all burdens they narrow our options our relationships our experiences of life forgiveness releases us forgiveness doesn't delete the past forgiveness enriches the future forgiveness doesn't

What forgiveness can...

 asking this world to dance, even if it keeps stepping on my holy feet you- you stay here with me, okay? You stay here with me. Raising your bite against the bitter dark Your bright longing Your brilliant fists of loss

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 probably hadn't been in a deep sleep that having been dozing and there was a Scaparrotti alien making this preposterous noise it just started to bitterly parade up and down and his

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 evidence to support the charges in some ways it's made me bitter some ways has made me more cynical in some ways it's made me angrier it's definitely wounded and scarred me