Quotes About Grudges
Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.
~ Debbie Ford
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... Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?
~ Steve Alten, The Loch
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Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
~ Hesiod
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Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn't.
~ Hilary Mantel
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women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.
~ Liane Moriarty
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They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.
~ Liane Moriarty
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But if the girls hadn't got their knickers in a knot, and that might sound sexist but it's not, it's just a fact of life, ask any man, not some new age, artsy-fartsy, I-wear-moisturiser type, I mean a real man, ask a real man, then he'll tell you that women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.
~ Liane Moriarty
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like that legendary journey that begins with a single step, I had already embarked upon my first resentment. A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress.
~ Lionel Shriver
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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
~ Unknown
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Secondo l'esperienza di Archie, qualunque cosa dotata di memoria lunga mantiene i rancori, e non va per niente bene tenere animaletti domestici con ragioni di rancore (quella volta mi hai dato il cibo sbagliato, quell'altra mi hai fatto il bagno).
~ Zadie Smith
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A la una de la mañana la ligera indigestión había desaparecido, y como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente, una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto hiriente fueron los agravios.
~ Horacio Quiroga
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All couples fight, but healthy couples fight fair. Unhealthy couples fight dirty, with below-the-belt jabs, sucker punches, angry accusations, and bitter grudges. Healthy couples fight for resolution. Unhealthy couples fight for personal victory. Dr.
~ Craig Groeschel
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Indian Alzheimer's" - where you forget everything but the grudges.
~ Craig Johnson
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If we hate people it does not hurt them at all... it hurts ourselves.
~ D.E. Stevenson
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
~ Jodi Picoult
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It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
~ Jodi Picoult
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
~ Jodi Picoult
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I'm ready to forgive you, but forgetting is a harder fight.
~ Unknown
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Being mad at someone for so long takes a lot of energy. I gotta get over it at some point.
~ Unknown
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To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own, then to lay wreaths of blame at the feet of the accused.
~ R. Scott Bakker
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To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own
~ R. Scott Bakker
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Forgiveness doesna make things go away.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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Saying I love you and forgiving each other without holding grudges are very powerful ways of doing spiritual warfare. Without saying it, you are declaring, "Satan, you can't have my marriage!" The enemy of your soul desires that you be constantly involved in contentions.
~ Unknown
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If you cling to the axe you're grinding, eventually you'll only hurt yourself.
~ Louis Zamperini
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