What did Alain de Botton mean by: Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Heart, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Serious, Trouble, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Obvious Things, Too Late, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Art, Devotion, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Genius, Inner Life, Structure, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Building Up, Wave, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, God, Soul, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
If I mayn’t tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. - Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. - Merle Travis Musician · USA
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. - Lucretius Philosopher and poet · Italy
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. - George Gissing Novelist · England