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Quotes About Resentment

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
~ Erik Larson
Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.)
~ Erik Larson
Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I've been a sexual underachiever my whole life, and I resent Warren for feeling entitled to something that I won't allow for myself!
~ Esther Perel
People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That
~ Ethan Canin
The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.
~ Andrew Pettegree
Darkness commands an inordinate amount of attention from a person who is unprepared and unprotected. Attention to darkness produces doubt. When a person is distracted and weakened by struggles, doubt whispers a message logically urging surrender; and soon, that person's focus is on his own discomfort, his fear and anger, regret and resentment.
~ Andy Andrews
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
~ Andy Rooney
My spite was sharp as broken glass
~ Angela Carter
He had a chip on his shoulder about anybody with a posh voice and a fancy degree.
~ Ann Cleeves
Perhaps it was healthier to hate your mother. Perhaps she should be grateful that Margaret had treated her like shit.
~ Ann Cleeves
They weren't sorry Catherine was dead at all. Certainly they hadn't particularly liked her when she was alive. Lisa had called her a stuck-up southern cow only last week, when Mr Scott had read out a chunk of her essay on Steinbeck. They were enjoying every minute of this. They weren't in the least sorry that Catherine would never take her place again in the front row for English. But she didn't say
~ Ann Cleeves
That woman's a ghoul – the delight she takes in other people's misery.
~ Ann Cleeves
She pretended to be a dutiful daughter, yet there were times when she wished her mother was dead. Even her friendship with Catherine hadn't been what it seemed and it had been a real effort to keep the resentment and jealousy from floating to the surface. Sometimes the effort of all that acting made her feel weird, cut off. Like she was looking down at herself.
~ Ann Cleeves
Holly hadn't liked Lizzie Redhead. Somebody else with doting parents and a comfortable life, who'd felt the need to make life difficult for other people.
~ Ann Cleeves
I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
~ Confucius
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
~ Mother Angelica
We would have a much more honest and respected political system if the Republican party could no longer squeeze out as much success from white resentment and white identity politics.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
~ Paul Theroux
I hate whenever there's a social issue that comes up in golf and people in the mainstream media who hate golf and who've conjured up all these stereotypes of people who are in the sport, the way they tear it down... I resent it, and I'll defend golf and people in golf until my dying day.
~ Jim Nantz