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Quotes About Resentment

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.
~ Paul Kearney
The sun had awakened with a grudge against the world and no one was sorry to see it go.
~ Unknown
was a love affair that produced moments of ecstasy, moments of pain, and sometimes, when he sensed he was being trapped by his emotions, moments of resentment. "No," I said. "The sea is why I'm here, close to
~ Unknown
No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety. The seeming pleasure of holding a resentment isn't worth all that.
~ Unknown
Resentments contain a great deal of energy—enough to lead to war, murder and suicide.
~ Unknown
Fox insists that, as long as we harbor a resentment toward any other person, we should not say the Lord's Prayer. We should not ask God to, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," because, by doing so, we ask God to feel toward us and to treat us the way we feel toward and treat those we resent.
~ Unknown
Chronic victims aren't up to that challenge, and their resentments are their excuse for staying emotionally where they are.
~ Unknown
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
~ Paul Valery
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
~ Paul Valery
Don't let resentment and bitterness rob you of happiness. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer
~ Peg Kehret
She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.
~ Per Petterson
And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much.
~ Percival Everett
All in all, he felt more milked than loved.
~ Unknown
The most common transferrential dynamic that I witness occurs when leftover hurt about a parent gets displaced onto someone we perceive as hurting us in the present. When this occurs, we respond to them with a magnified anger or anguish that is
~ Unknown
Resentment that should have been directed toward my parents often boomeranged onto me and spoiled or thwarted my efforts at self-nurturance.
~ Unknown
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of forty-five per cent fear of not being accepted and forty-five per cent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame, and a modest ten per cent frail awareness of the possibility of love. [...] Falling in love is a form of madness. Closely related to hatred, coldness, resentment, intoxication, and suicide.
~ Peter Høeg
When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.
~ Peter Høeg
Gilbert?" Some days I hate all those who know my name.
~ Peter Hedges
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Havenít you saved a blessing for me?”
~ Genesis 27:36
When Josephís brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
~ Genesis 37:4
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
~ Deuteronomy 28:54
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
~ Deuteronomy 28:56
And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.
~ 2 Samuel 13:22
Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kingís gate.”
~ Esther 5:13