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Quotes About Resentment

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?
~ JPEGMAFIA
Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.
~ Thomas Hardy
É uma moça muito bonita", disse ele a Oak. "Mas tem seus defeitos", comentou Gabriel. ââ'¬Å"É verdade, fazendeiro." "E o maior deles é — bem, o de sempre." "Regatear? Sim, é mesmo." "Ah, não." "O que é, então?" Gabriel, talvez um pouco ressentido pela indiferença da viajante, olhou para onde havia testemunhado a atuação dela pela cerca e disse: "Vaidade.
~ Thomas Hardy
It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven't forgiven.
~ Thomas Keneally
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.
~ Thomas Merton
I am so old that I can remember when other people's achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
~ Thomas Sowell
Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.
~ Thomas Sowell
Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.
~ Thomas Sowell
Black votes matter to many politicians — more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians. Racial polarization makes both the black population and the white population worse off, but it makes politicians who depend on black votes better off.
~ Thomas Sowell
Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.
~ Thomas Sowell
Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel and see her as another woman. Hard, but worth every bit of the effort.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Like the servants, we, his children, were beneath him, and so we were left oftentimes standing with his lies in our hands like baffling presents, not knowing what we were to do with this collection of things, his words, whether they should be used or displayed or hidden like a broken toy in a corner of the nursery armoire." -- Emma Garnet on describing her father, page 2
~ Kaye Gibbons
Out of all human emotions, none is more primitive, and has a longer lasting effect on the body, than hatred.
~ Kei Ohishi
Sometimes hatred can even give unbelievable power to people.
~ Kei Ohishi
It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.
~ keith laumer
it's like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Ken Davis
Her tone spoke less of nostalgia than reproach, of feelings long coveted and repeated whenever she had the chance.
~ César Aira
No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
~ C. JoyBell
Que no hay peor odio que el de la misma sangre, [...], porque a nadie se odia más con más intensos bríos que a aquello a que uno se parece y uno llega a aborrecer el parecido.
~ Camilo Jose Cela
tried to put aside his resentment; only
~ Gayle Callen
Necesitaba alguien a quien odiar, y como tú eras la persona a la que más quería, te tocó
~ Gayle Forman
Closure. I loathe that word.
~ Gayle Forman
I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist
~ Gena Showalter
Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.
~ Gena Showalter