Quotes About Resentment

Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.

He was the one who'd made her this way. He'd turned her into this person sitting next to him, a beast with venom in her veins. She was forced to sharpen her edges into needle points because of him.

Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly—at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful. Maria

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.

Fuchsia, for whom the fine art of procedure held less lure, found in old Barquentine a creature to hide from and to hate – not for any specific reason, but with the hatred of the young for the authority vested in age.

Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

Never underestimate the anger of a woman who's fallen out of love.

The classic private bitterness of the public zealot. A man who wanted to take out his own inadequacy on other people. And

He could wait, because hatred is patient.

But I hated Alfred. I hated him for humiliating me at Exanceaster when he had made me wear a penitent's robe and crawl on my knees. Nor did I think of him as my king. He was a West Saxon and I was a Northumbrian, and I reckoned so long as he was king then Wessex had small chance of surviving. He believed God would protect him from the Danes, while I believed they had to be defeated by swords.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

The only person you resent is yourself.

I resent all organised religions.

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I don't watch horror films, because I don't want those images in my psyche, and I resent having them forced on me before a movie of my choosing.

I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City' did to my neighborhood.

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.