Salman Rushdie

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.

Indian Novelist

Anton Chekhov

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.

Russian Dramatist

James Earl Jones

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.

American Actor

P. J. O'Rourke

I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

American Comedian

Bob Hawke

Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the national life.

Australian Statesman

Apollonius of Tyana

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.

Greek Philosopher

Bernie Siegel

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

American Writer

Thomas Sprat

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

English Writer

George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

British Author

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

American Politician

Embitter implies a feeling that develops over time, not suddenly.

Duration Matters

The anger from 'embitter' is deep and long-lasting, not just annoyance.

Deep Resentment

Embitter often relates to personal experiences rather than general situations.

Personal Experience

Embitter in contexts such as politics implies worsening feelings or relations.

Worsening Relations

It accentuates the negative aspects of feelings or situations.

Negative Intensity

Recognize that 'embitter' may carry different weights in cultural contexts.

Cultural Sensitivity

 He's deeply embittered by the fact that he's been stop-loss, and on top of that, then has the certainty that he's going to die. It's pretty impressive, the fact that you were able to carry out in that. And the calm in the midst of all that, was, uh I probably surprised, me, too.

First Look: The Long...

 in fact, his life depended on proving that he had committed the fraud. Like many art forgers, Han van Meegeren was an artist whose original works had failed to bring him renown. Embittered towards the art world, van Meegeren set out to make fools of his detractors.

The art forger who...

 was starting to give me more heartburn than the times that I engaged with suspected extremists overseas. It was starting to leave me feeling more embittered and frustrated. And so just like that, I shifted my entire focus from global national security threats