Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life’s ironies too many times.

Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. “It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has the tastes of a spoiled princess. I savor bitterness–it is born of experience....

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey...

As impossible as this may seem (in infertility), try to reach outside of yourself and realize all of the things that you are able to do for now because you do not have children. There...

It is hope–with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet–that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and...

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting he got into an argument with a...

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not...

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that...