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Quotes About Resentment

She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.
~ Don DeLillo
The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness—and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself. Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.
~ Donald Miller
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
~ Jack Canfield
Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
~ Jack Canfield
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
~ Jack Kornfield
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
~ Jack Kornfield
Anger, blame, conflict, and resentment arise from our fear. When we are afraid, our body tightens, our heart is constricted, our mind is possessed. We cannot live wisely.
~ Jack Kornfield
Expectations are pre-meditated resentment.8
~ Unknown
At the time 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
First they brought us here. Then we worked for free. Then it was 1863, and we were supposed to be free but we weren't. And that's why people are so mad.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Resentimentul se na?te din neacceptarea faptului c? dorin?ele nu mi s-au realizat, c? ceea ce am spus nu a fost în?eles, c? a?tept?rile mi-au fost în?elate, c? proiectele mi-au fost stricate sau amânate, c? via?a nu se ajusteaz? dup? percep?ia mea.
~ Unknown
Isn't that the last straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you bastards rich" is taken away, too.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
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
And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.
~ Lynn Coady
You can't fool a child. She would sense the lack of warmth between us, feel the resentment, and hear the silences . . .
~ Unknown
Raw emotions — anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment — are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general.
~ M.C. Beaton
Many of the eastern and southern women here greatly resent the fact that there are to be colored women in the delegations.
~ M.J. Rose
I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die
~ Unknown
becoming French." Meanwhile, as the birth rate of Europe's indigenous population remains stagnant, the newcomers are fruitful and multiplying. Over time, resentment toward them has grown, along with
~ Madeleine K. Albright
painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
There is, however, a tipping point where loyalty to one's own tribe curdles into resentment and hatred, then aggression toward others. That's when Fascism enters the picture, trailed by an assortment of woes, up to and including the Holocaust and global war.
~ Madeleine K. Albright