In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.
Tags: poetry heart bitterness
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya AngelouTags: rage anger bitterness
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Tags: love anger bitterness
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph HellerTags: envy bitterness
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 GreeneTags: love bitterness
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 KraussTags: anger bitterness
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. SalingerTags: family death forgiveness suicide bitterness
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
Paulo CoelhoTags: darkness suffering bitterness
The Blue Jay's Lullaby—
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.
Tags: lullaby irony bitterness
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 CareyTags: fear life fate bitterness
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