Sentence examples for bitter pains from inspiring English sources

Its cruel and oafish backwater growds, and the itinerant grotesques who prey upon them, don't feel all that funny or far away, and the bitter pains of Jim's condition, on which Twain poured out his irony, are dated more in details than in substance.

The key to developing this affirmative attitude toward life is the cultivation of reason: "True philosophy… teaches that even amidst the saddest disasters and most bitter pains we can always be content, provided that we know how to use our reason" (AT IV 314/CSMK 272).

In my whole life I've never felt such a bitter pain as losing that final".

We wonder at these troubled people, at the impulse which leads them to dwell so lovingly on their bitter pain & deep confusion.

Those sanctions are causing bitter pain, yet a surprising number of Iranians seem to largely blame their own leaders for the woes.

Described by one critic as "a poet of modern disenchantment," Desai ruthlessly illustrated the bitter pain of immigration, the lasting demoralization that colonialism inflicted upon India, and her view that globalization is an affront to the less-developed world.

It could be a horribly cynical evening, but it is suffused with bitter pain and lit by the suggestion that we can transcend our baser instincts - but only when we face the real truth about ourselves.

Ya se fueron las nieves de Enero y Llegaron las flores de Mayo Ya lo vez me aguantado lo macho y Mi amargo dolor me lo cayo The snows of January have gone and The flowers of May have arrived You can see, I've resisted like a man and I keep my bitter pain to myself "There's not a single bar where you don't hear that song after so many years," said Omar, who is from Michoacán.

It should be a bitter pain for all of us as a society.

In "Bittermelon," he compared the ugliness of the vegetable's "lined face" with time: "Wait until this moody weather is over / That's all that matters… / The loudest song's not necessarily passionate / the bitterest pain stays in the heart.

Herodotus put it best when he wrote of an unnamed Persian soldier who, after foretelling his army's destruction, laments, "This is the bitterest pain to human beings, to know much and control nothing".