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Quotes About Resentment

He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.
~ Roberto Bolano
have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
~ Robin Hobb
I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
~ Robin Hobb
I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.
~ Robin Hobb
Many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
~ Robin Hobb
In the second week of June, two second-lieutenants were shot by firing squads drawn from their own companies, for allegedly failing to press home their attacks. Orders also went out that battalions abandoning positions or retiring during an attack were to be fired on by their own machine-guns or bombarded by French artillery. Some of these orders were actually obeyed but the resentment they caused far outweighed the influence they had on the front-line soldier.
~ Robin Neillands
If ever there was a plant that speaks to its connection to your heart, it is sweet blue violet. Not only does violet help your body dissolve cysts, lumps, and bumps, this plant's soothing nature can help you dissolve the red-hot burn of anger, cool the draining white heat of frustration and resentment, and relieve the simmering roil of feeling stuck in separation when ruled by your judgmental mind.
~ Robin Rose Bennett
Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go.
~ Robyn Carr
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies—Nelson Mandela. "Enough,
~ Robyn Carr
She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.
~ Lisa Papademetriou
I thought about my brother. I hated him. Hated him like a child hates a fallen hero. I hated him for his unlimited potential and his failure to realize it. I hated him because I could see everything that was wonderful about him, how brilliant, how beautiful he was, and how he had turned his back on everything he could have been, cast it off like a designer suit for which he'd paid an obscene sum and never wore.
~ Lisa Unger
We hate our parents for having their own lives, don't we, for making decisions for themselves that don't seem to take us into account. They're not people, not really. They're parents; how dare they live and love and die without us?
~ Lisa Unger
Mark has everything to do with this! If you hadn't gone downside after him, you would never have been killed. And you wouldn't have been left with some damned cryonic short circuit in your head. You may think he's the greatest invention since the Necklin drive, but I loathe the fat little creep!" "Well, I like the fat little creep! Somebody has to. I swear, you are frigging jealous. Don't be such a damned cast-iron bitch!" They
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God.
~ Lord Dunsany
He should have been drowned at birth.
~ Louis L'Amour
he had been so right, and she hated him for it.
~ Louis L'Amour
You can marry me now and resent at leisure.
~ Louis L'Amour
The mob was made up of the refuse of every class: disempowered aristocrats, disillusioned intellectuals, gangsters, denizens of the underworld. They were people who believed that the respectable world was a conspiracy to deny them what they were owed; they were embodiments of the politics of resentment. Arendt thought that the leadership of totalitarian movements came from this group.
~ Louis Menand
She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings always do unless cast out at once.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It was the first time I had ever seen him show any but pleasant feeling, and there could be no doubt that he was aflame with anger and resentment.
~ Ron Chernow
Her father was slowly dying of stomach cancer while she was writing her series, and this might have further embittered her toward Rockefeller
~ Ron Chernow
This argument miscarried on several counts: Rockefeller resented any references to his infamy, felt no need to cleanse his reputation, and rebelled against any insinuation that his charity was selfishly motivated.
~ Ron Chernow
Matilde se la había dado todo. Pero eso un hombre no lo agradece nunca, eso se paga profiriendo un insulto. Otras mujeres esperaban su turno y serían menos torpes de lo que ella fue.
~ Rosario Castellanos