Hard To Forgive Quotes

• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Forever, Forgiving, Vices

  "Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Forgiving, Unhappiness

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  "If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Father, Men

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• I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Wife, People

  Donald Trump's remarks at the third Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

  Charlotte Forten Grimke

  Racism, Hatred, Forgiving

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• Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiveness, Prayer, Forgiving

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• You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

  Demetri Martin

  Uncles, Kissing, Forgiving

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• Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Falling In Love, Book, People

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• It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

  Emily Bronte

  Eye, Kissing, Hands

  Emily Bronte (2010). “Wuthering Heights”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Animal, Men

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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