Quotes About Resentment

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

For Nietzsche, one of the dangers of the men of ressentiment is that they will achieve their ultimate form of revenge, which is to turn happy people into unhappy people like themselves—to shove their misery into the faces of the happy so that in due course the happy "start to be ashamed of their happiness and perhaps say to one another: 'It's a disgrace to be happy!

In all matters, whether to do with money, sex, or anything else, no man feels that the scales are weighted in his favor. And so just as the men of resentment talk about "justice" while meaning "revenge," so it is that something is disguised within their talk of "equality.

The only possible demand at the endpoint of deconstruction is to deconstruct some more. And it seems possible to pull apart and find cause for resentment endlessly. Certainly, that is the hope of the deconstructionists, who now scour the world of art and look for symbols of rape, male dominance, privilege, racism, and much more.10 And of course they find things to occupy their time.

Without gratitude, the prevailing attitudes of life are blame and resentment.

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

I'm a little angry in life.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

By the 1980s, influenced by the psychology and popular culture of trauma, the Left had abandoned solidarity across difference in favor of the meditation on and expression of suffering, a politics of feeling and resentment, of self and sensitivity. The Right, if it didn't describe itself as engaging in identity politics, adopted the same model: the NRA, notably, cultivated the resentments and grievances of white men

When Benjamin Franklin began writing his autobiography, in 1771, he turned the story of his own escape—running away from his apprenticeship to his brother James—into a metaphor for the colonies' growing resentment of parliamentary rule.

I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.

Why should whites apologize? For inventing nearly everything and still being spat upon by the ingrates who freely "appropriate" these inventions without even a simple "thank you"?

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.