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Quotes About Resentment

If you hate and resent a situation, you have fastened it to yourself, for you attract what you fear or dislike. When someone has been unjust to you, you are filled with wrath and resentment.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The light of Infinite Intelligence streams through your consciousness, dissolving and dissipating all anger and resentment. You are at peace with yourself and with the whole world.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The light of Infinite Intelligence streams through your consciousness, dissolving and dissipating all anger and resentment. You are at peace with yourself and with the whole world. A woman once told
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
La irreligión no había sido para mí sino una forma vacía donde había resbalado mis humillaciones de pequeño campesino enriquecido, despreciado por sus camaradas burgueses. Yo la llenaba ahora con mi decepción amorosa y con un rencor casi infinito.
~ Francois Mauriac
Vivre mais un cadavre entre les mains de ceux qui la haïssent. N'essayer en rien de voir au-delà.
~ Francois Mauriac
I hate you!" Pen's would-be shout was muffled by breathlessness, and not-Triss realized that the younger girl was sobbing with exhaustion and rage. "I hate you! You stupid . . . Why did you have to happen? I never asked for a stupid . . . stupid . . . toothy . . . stupid . . . monster thing.
~ Frances Hardinge
Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.
~ Billy Graham
As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.
~ Billy Graham
When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian "apart.
~ Billy Graham
Those evil resentments you harbour in your breast against your neighbour, the failure to forgive those who have wronged you ... the jealousies, the envies, the prejudices, and the malices will take away your appetite for the things of the Spirit.
~ Billy Graham
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
~ Bokonon
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
~ Boris Pasternak
Your anger is unreasonable and unfair. Let it stay that way. Trying to make it seem reasonable - which usually consists of trying to make the resented person wrong - is the source of all the judgments and explanations that remove you further from the person and further from your experience of the sensations that arose in your body.
~ Brad Blanton
Many of us won't express anger with a loved one. We believe that if we expressed our resentment, it would destroy our relationship and our beloved would leave us.
~ Brad Blanton
The problem is that ideas about forgiveness are not forgiveness. They don't even help. What you are left with is the experience of resentment and the concept of forgiveness and a deteriorating relationship.
~ Brad Blanton
Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.
~ Harold Bloom
Bitterness against an individual becomes a poison—not one that destroys your enemy but one that gradually destroys you.
~ Harold J. Sala
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
~ Harper Lee
People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.
~ Harper Lee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee
he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred….
~ Harper Lee
The older you grow the more of it you'll see. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As
~ Harper Lee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee