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Quotes About Resentment

There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they
~ Sarah Monette
Felix, you see, doesn't need to worry about who Lord Stephen marries. And that must gnaw at Robert's dry little soul like a rat.
~ Sarah Monette
The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
~ Sarah Waters
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.
~ Sarra Manning
I always thought I hated the bastard, but knowing that I'm never going to get the chance to tell him how much I hated him breaks my heart.
~ Sarra Manning
The moment you resent a person, you become his slave. Living with resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other guy to get sick. The person who is the focus of your animosity may be feeling just fine, enjoying life, and not troubled while you are letting them rent space in your brain. Resentment gives you illusions of strength.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
A book without spine or covers is like an unquiet spirit without mortal form. Whatever's left of it holds itself together out of sheer resentment, roaming without purpose, lashing out at whatever crosses its path.
~ Scott Lynch
The godless in heart harbor resentment. (Job 36:13 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
Resentment kills a fool. (Job 5:2 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.
~ Philip K. Dick
Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
~ Barry Lyga
It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.
~ Barry Lyga
When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.
~ Lidija Dimkovska
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
~ Mike Carey
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
~ Mark Twain
Oh, come on, Arthur. I don't want to hear it, Andy. Jesus Christ He doesn't want to hear it, either.
~ Markus Zusak
Duden Dictionary Meaning #2 Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment.
~ Markus Zusak
I'd tell you to go to hell but i don't want to see you again.
~ Markus Zusak
I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.
~ Marlon James
La política de la envidia a veces se limita sinceramente a la idea de que "queremos lo que ellos (mujeres, inmigrantes, miembros de la élite) tienen". Pero a las personas les encanta moralizar su envidia y, muy a menudo, lo que empieza siendo pura envidia deriva hacia un "son malas personas, no merecen lo que tienen".
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
El resentimiento, para Nietzsche, es la emoción de envidia que sienten los impotentes ante los poderosos, pero es una emoción que suscita una especial creatividad, pues empuja a quienes no tienen poder a inventar un universo alternativo en el que ellos son los poderosos y sus competidores son patéticos.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
I was having an emotion, and I hate that.
~ Martha Wells
Nietzsche's view of Christian love as a form of resentment and revenge of the powerless and impotent toward the powerful and the strong led King briefly to "despair of the power of love in solving social problems.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.