Civilization has its cup of bitterness. [ F. de Conches ]

But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things. [ Wordsworth ]

Let not bitterness enter the heart of a mother. [ Ptah-Hotep ]

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. [ Hafiz ]

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness. [ Shelley ]

That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty. [ Proverb ]

The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.

Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. [ Bible ]

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]

O Truth! pure and sacred virgin, when wilt thou be worthily revered? O Goddess who instructs us, why didst thou put thy palace in a well? When will our learned writers, alike free from bitterness and from flattery, faithfully teach us life? [ Voltaire ]