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Quotes About Resentment

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.
~ Nella Larsen
And mingled with her disbelief and resentment was another feeling, a question. Why hadn't she spoken that day? Why, in the face of Bellew's ignorant hate and aversion, had she concealed her own origin? Why had she allowed him to make his assertions and express his misconceptions undisputed? Why, simply because of Clare Kendry, who had exposed her to such torment, had she failed to take up the defense of the race to which she belonged?
~ Nella Larsen
For all the suffering that you've put me through I'd suffer more if I resented you—
~ Nezami Ganjavi
El Japón en el que Hiro-Hito alcanzó la edad adulta era un país que admiraba a Occidente por su modernidad al tiempo que se hallaba resentido contra él por su arrogancia. Parecía que, para ser tratado como un igual, Japón tendría que adquirir también el último de los accesorios occidentales: un imperio.
~ Niall Ferguson
For whoever believes that great advancement and new benefits make men forget old injuries is mistaken.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Because I thought it was good enough. And I hoped I could change. That over time, maybe I would come to feel the same way about him as I did about you. But I didn't, and as the years went on, I think he came to see that, too. And it hurt him, and I knew it hurt him, but the harder he tried to show me how important I was to him, the more suffocated I felt. And I resented that. I resented him...
~ Nicholas Sparks
There's a famous saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' I want to change it to 'Hell hath no fury like a nation scorned.'
~ Adnan Sami
If you would be happy and content, you must let go of regret and resentment. Any regret or resentment for what has been done to you or even for harmful things you have done to others dispels your happiness.
~ Chris Prentiss
The Europeans hate us because we've retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms, eat symbolic meals, are symbolically entertained- and that terrifies them, that fills them with fury and loathing because they can never understand it.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Lucsly glanced back. "That's just it. I'm not supposed to know." He paused. "A history of race hatred . . . a self-serving demagogue stirring up new resentments for his own ends . . . you don't need time travel to predict where that's heading. It's up
~ Christopher L. Bennett
Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.
~ Christopher Moore
Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to. Especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
The snail, presumably, to bolster the self-esteem of the turtles: "You think we're slow? Look at that guy." To shore up the snail's morale in the same way, there was a rock. Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.
~ Christopher Moore
He had never liked Sloan. The butcher always
~ Christopher Paolini
expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.
~ Christopher Paolini
Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.
~ Christopher Paolini
Momma was the only one who wasn't born in Flint so the cold was coldest to her. All you could see were her eyes too, and they were shooting bad looks at Dad. She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called a giant icebox. Dad was bundled up on the other side of Joey, trying to look at anything but Momma. Next to Dad, sitting with a little space between them, was my older brother, Byron.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Vengeance is always possible, he said, but only if your memory can endure it.
~ Christopher Rice
How does a daughter know that she feels appropriately towards the woman who is her mother? Yes, it was difficult to know what to do with Mai, how to conceive her. I thought I hated her fawning, but what I see I hated is the degree of it. If she was fawning, she was not fawning enough. She diluted it with her spitefulness, the hopeless clawing of a small cornered spirit towards what was beyond it. And if she had spirit, it was not great enough, being shrunk by the bitterness of her temper.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
All'università (allora, ma credo ancor oggi) le cose vanno all'opposto del mondo normale, non sono i figli che odiano i padri ma i padri che odiano i figli.
~ Umberto Eco
couldn't say anything comforting, for he knew that civil wars are not polite; he knew, what these privileged people had never troubled to learn, the age-old wrongs which had set the fires of hatred to blazing in the hearts of wage-slaves.
~ Upton Sinclair
Excess weight was the physical accumulation of past hurts, insults, disappointments, and resentments that, once released from the mind and soul, were freed from the body.
~ Valerie Frankel
The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secular rationalism, and open markets provokes the resentment of both weaker and less-secure theocracy and autocracy alike.
~ Victor Davis Hanson