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Quotes About Resentment

misery made me unjust to you.
~ Honore de Balzac
Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.
~ Hope Edelman
This is a reactionary rage, often fueled by a sense of deprivation and a belief the world owes something to the daughter who lost her mother too young. But underneath it is usually a deep anger toward the mother herself.
~ Hope Edelman
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.
~ Unknown
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
~ Horace
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
~ Hosea Ballou
The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart
~ Unknown
He flowed deeper and deeper into himself, wrapped in the comforting strength of hate.
~ Unknown
Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.
~ Unknown
Molly wasn't hope then, of course, and i can't help hating her for not being there.
~ Unknown
Gavin recognized the look of his father, a half-empty bottle of resentment in his hand.
~ Unknown
The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.
~ Ian Rankin
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
~ Idries Shah
my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
~ Columba Bush
Evil is always fuelled by jealousy.
~ Unknown
Jealousy is the root of all evil.
~ Unknown
To be jealous is to be as the devil; there is a difference between envy and jealousy.
~ Unknown
Meet resentment with upright dealing and meet inner power with inner power.
~ Confucius
An envier doesn't care whether you have earned part of your success or whether some golden parachute from heaven has dropped straight into your lap. To an envier, your advantage is totally unfair either way. In this respect, enviers are theological switch-hitters: sometimes they are Pelagians and sometimes they are Augustinians. But always they are potential killers.
~ Unknown
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
~ Unknown
She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be? ("Mind Over Murder")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.
~ Corrie Ten Boom