Resentment Quotes - Page 22

• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Bitterness, Blanket, Martyrdom

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.97, Conari Press

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• Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hate, Self, Loathing

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.337, Yearling

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• Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Block, Envy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Memories, Emotional, Long

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Forever, Would Be

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• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

  David Levithan

  People, Going Away, Ends

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

  Neal Shusterman

  Littles

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.678, Simon and Schuster

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• For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

  William S. Burroughs

  Years, People, Bed

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Crush, Jesus, Powerful

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• criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hurt, Pride, Criticism

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• There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Regret, Desire

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• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Persistence, Simple, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

  Hope Mirrlees

  Pain, Heart, Pride

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.

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• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

  Pema Chodron

  Joy, Obstacles, Connecting

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Winning, Power

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

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• The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

  Luke Davies

  Bitterness, Wonder, Empty

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.38, Penguin

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• It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

  Kate Morton

  Sibling, Keys, Games

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Hurt, Pain, Past

  Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

  Emma Forrest

  Struggle, Envy, Soul

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

  C. S. Lewis

  Bullying, Cheating, Hurt

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