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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. -- Emile M. Cioran
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school. -- Matt Frewer
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. -- Thomas Sprat
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. -- George Orwell
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive. -- Bernie Siegel
I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth. -- Apollonius of Tyana
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. -- James Earl Jones
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. -- Anton Chekhov
I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out. -- Teju Cole
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. -- Salman Rushdie
Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared. -- Matthew Henry
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. -- J. B. Priestley
Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you. -- Gillian Jacobs
We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered. -- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. -- Anton Chekhov
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. -- Edward Gibbon
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves. -- Jean de la Bruyere
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun. -- William Butler Yeats
To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be. -- Chris Murray
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It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them. -- Rush Limbaugh
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day. -- Alain de Botton
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity. -- Anna Brownell Jameson

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