“As for us, during twenty years’ reign, we have known much bitterness.”

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

One can’t measure the life with its bitterness but with it’s sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words.