Quotes About Grudge

I know a thing about resentment: it is a poison you drink yourself, expecting others to die.

when you can't forgive

I'll never forgive. I'll never forget.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

Sometimes, he would make a villain of her and imagine ways that she had slighted him: that time she had turned away from him; that time she had avoided his eyes. But she hadn't done those things -- it would have been almost better if she had.

But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays with you, to keep you company.

bore a hidden grudge against Mother for the ease with which she moved on past the loss of Father to daily routine. She never loved him, I thought, and because Father was not rooted in the heart of any woman, he also could not grow into any reality and floated eternally on the periphery of life, in half-real regions, on the edges of actuality.

Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. Regarded in this indicatory

Probably the most blood came when I used a cheese grater on his knees.

He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.

They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.

In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Some people just can't forgive. And that's just the way life is. You know, I can't forgive some things, either.

There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.

Nothing keeps memory more alive than resentment.

Nada mantiene mejor la memoria que el resentimiento.

I hear it was the fact that the Brennans had a hellfireanddamnation preacher runnin' their family back in Prohibition days and you Gallaghers were runnin' moonshine to get by and got caught. Your family blamed the Brennans for rattin' you out, and that started a feud, Rosalie said.

You have to forgive her, Emma. Not for her sake. She doesn't deserve it. But for your sake, so that you don't become bitter like she is. I told her for years that she wasn't doing the right thing by you, but she wouldn't listen.

Prejudice is a funny thing," Levi said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "Kind of like a grudge. After you've had it for a while, you tend to forget what made you feel that way in the first place.