Quotes About Resentment

He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

Addict logic," Yolanda said, not missing a beat. "Life viewed through resentment.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all. It's like saying it's your fault if I shoot you, because the gun is aiming at you. It completely disregards who's doing the aiming. But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds.

I was used and tricked and thrown away, but I cannot be forgiven. It's a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you're the protagonist, but really, you're just the backstory. The boys shrug and go on, they fight and blow things up and half of them do much worse... and still get a key to the city, and eventually you're just a story your high school boyfriend tells the kid he had with his new wife.

I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.

am an unreliable narrator, hypervigilant to the point of being paranoid, imposing all my own insecurities onto him. I can't even recall if I actually felt that pain or imagined it, since I have rewritten this memory so many times I have mauled it down to nothing, erasing him down until he was a smudge of resentment while I was a smudge of entitlement until we both smudged into me.

The hero worship had just become obvious. He felt that he ought to be resenting it. All the same, the whiff of incense was not unsweet in his nostrils. Rather the reverse.

Every potato chip I've have ever eaten has added another chip to my shoulder. They're a lot heavier to carry around than the pounds, somehow.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

If you want to make a man hate you fiercely and forever, prove to him something he does not wish to believe.

Sorrow almost resents love, it is so inflamed.

Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection...

You were the most desirable woman I've ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.

Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair.

your bosses simply hate you. That's right, they hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of "disdain" in my book.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Bloodlust is the only real tribute the mediocre are capable of bringing to the extraordinary

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.