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Quotes About Resentment

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
~ George Bernard Shaw
there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
~ George Eliot
I don't mean your resentment toward them, said Philip... I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entered into the family quarrels. What does that signify? We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. It's altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver's daughter.
~ George Eliot
He had disliked Will while he helped him, but he had begun to dislike him still more now that Will had declined his help. That
~ George Eliot
How can conservatives love their country, love their system of government, love the founders of their government, but resent and often hate the government itself?
~ George Lakoff
What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities' sense of entitlement and condescension.
~ Glenn Kelman
Grudges don't simply disappear. And I know that no matter what people tell you to comfort you, it just sounds like sarcasm." ~ Aunt Monica
~ Sahara Mizu
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
It did not seem to matter whether I was present or not. After a time I became resentful, feeling that the flowers mocked me, blooming in defiance of my listless misery.
~ Sally Brampton
A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth.
~ Sally MacKenzie
El termómetro del éxito es simplemente la envidia de los descontentos.
~ Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
~ Salvador Dali
quanto mais você se tornar um conhecedor da gratidão, menos você será vítima do ressentimento, da depressão e do desespero. A gratidão funcionará como um elixir que gradualmente dissolverá a concha dura de seu ego - sua necessidade de possuir e controlar - e transformará você num ser generoso. O senso de gratidão produz uma verdadeira alquimia espiritual, torna-nos magnânimos - de almas grandes.
~ Sam Keen
I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.
~ Sam Shepard
The envious narcissist's existence is) a constant hiss, a tangible malice, the piercing of a thousand eyes, the imminence and immanence of violence, the poisoned joy of depriving the other of that which you don't or cannot have.
~ Sam Vaknin
I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
~ Samantha Bee
Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.
~ Santosh
Often those I treat well are just the ones who most harm me vainly You I want to suffer In me I know it
~ Sappho
I'd developed a kind of resentment of people who were attractive and looked like they had sex and maybe even enjoyed life.
~ Sara Gran
It was astonishing that Elizabeth could keep finding perfect little replicas. It was repugnant that she kept charming children into trusting her. He supposed he should feel some sense of pride that he'd helped to save these kids, but all he felt was resentment. Damien and the girl had only been stuck in this nightmare for a few months, max. They'd get their childhoods back. They'd get to see their parents. They'd get to live.
~ Sara Shepard
I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.
~ Willie D
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
~ Amy Winehouse
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
~ Anne Sexton