Quotes About Resentment

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.

La rivalidad entre hermanos es una serpiente que nunca se puede acabar de matar.

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven't tears enough for what you've done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!' Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia's name. But Claudia did not hear her. 'Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

I understand the very definition of hate when I think of you.

What have you done with Hetty? he demanded. Listened to her incessant prattle, complaints, tears, demands, artless conversation and recriminations for more than twenty-four hours. You will be pleased to know I didn't touch her—if I had I would have throttled her. Take her away, if you please. I'd rather spend the rest of my life a pauper than have to spend even another day with the divine Miss Chippie.

I will never forgive you for consuming every last little drop of our parents' attention and leaving nothing for the rest of us.

She felt a lot less grateful to Derek now than she had when they were on the plane.

I hated her that day. I didn't care how upset she was about her mother, I really hated her, and I wanted her to leave. I wondered if this was how my father felt when I threw all those temper tantrums. Maybe he hated me for a while.

Ned never argued with their father, he was unfailingly polite and then nonchalantly went his own way; whereas, he, Edmund, deferred dutifully to his father's authority and then found himself resenting both his parent's austere discipline and his own reluctance to rebel.

Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

Those who have no sons rarely attach any importance to the priorities of those who do, but they resent them deeply.)

Misfortune often develops secret foes," Davis had said in a letter written earlier that week to Lee, "and oftener still makes men complain. It is comfortable to hold someone responsible for one's discomfort.

She had that look. The one that means, "I can't wait to get this over with and get you out of here and get on with my life." The look that is so hard to believe, so impossible to take in, when it comes from someone who used to love you. The look that always makes you wonder if they ever really did. It's the final look. There's no coming back from it.

So we must forgive all those Who trespass against us? Fuck that shit. I'm not some charitable trust. There are people I will hate Even after I'm ashes and dust.

I suppose, in many ways, one never stops loving the people they loved during their youth. Or hating the people they hated.

Don't touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can't believe you– (Selena) At least she didn't spit in my face with her dying breath. (Julian) They shoot, they score. A direct hit straight through the heart and into the raw nerves. (Selena)

You don't like Talon, do you? (Sunshine) Wish him dead every time I see him. (Zarek) I can't tell if you mean that or not. (Sunshine) I mean it. (Zarek) Why? (Sunshine) He's an asshole and I've had enough assholes in my life. (Zarek)

I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don't look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn't mean I don't love you 'cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you're twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain't got no sense of humor. (Omari)

You snide halitosis-breathing worthless shit sack! (Stryker)

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.