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Quotes About Resentment

Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.
~ Katherine Paterson
All right, all right, he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Security, the dignity we loved, were nowhere. So ugliness boiled up within us and resentment at the outer world which we were told was responsible for our catastrophes. The Germans in their pride and their despair began to make a fetish of their enforced isolation from the security of the normal world. It is a truism that the wider world a man feels himself to be a part of, the less likely he is to be seduced by notions of the superiority of some narrow group.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
when travellers speak of their most cherished memories, it's impossible for them to disguise the truth. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Of course, it is tragic that so many of his generation died as they did, but why must he harbour such bitterness for his elders?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
This circle of hate is hardly broken, sir, but forged instead in iron by what's done today.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years—that we see only rarely.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)
~ Ken Bruen
It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate
~ Ken Follett
They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...
~ Ken Kesey
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
~ Richard Hofstadter
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.
~ Steve Maraboli
They resented the patronage they depended upon.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.
~ Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.
~ Jerry Reed
The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
~ Tony Robbins
Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.
~ Drake
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
~ Aesop
I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.
~ Lou Ferrigno
Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
~ William Peter Blatty
No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves.
~ William Peter Blatty