Quotes About Resentment

hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.

It's always precisely the sort of smug old wanker you would never ever want to end up like. We don't live the way you tell us to because we're afraid that if we do we'll grow up to be like you, and the thought of that is unbearable. It's alright for you because you'll be dead soon anyway, but we've still got another fifty or sixty years to live in this stinking country.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Ahmed Sinai never forgave his son for breaking his toe. Even after the splint was removed, a tiny limp remained. My father leaned over my crib and said, "So, my son: you're starting as you mean to go on. Already you've started bashing your poor old father!" In my opinion, this was only half a joke.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

Resentment creates stress.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host.

When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

I had swallowed my share of bitterness, but a portion had stuck in my throat and turned to rage.

We only hate as long as we feel totally powerless.

Enforced love is not love. All it can lead to is a sham relationship without any genuine communication, a pretense of warmth and cordiality that does not really exist, a false avowal of affection designed to mask resentment or possibly even hatred.