quotations about resentment
Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
JENNIFER DUBOIS
A Partial History of Lost Causes
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people ... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
KIM EDWARDS
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I want to be vigilant not to resent, but to pursue the work of disarming resentment.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, May 23, 1880
Resentment seems to have been given to us by nature for defense, and for defense only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence.
ADAM SMITH
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Resentment is usually aimed at other people, groups or institutions, but it can just as well be directed at divine or inanimate objects and even at the world as a whole.
ROBERT C. SOLOMON
Spirituality for the Skeptic
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.
HOPE MIRRLEES
Lud-in-the-Mist
Some people hold resentments for many years, refusing to let go of them. Over time, whatever caused the original anger and led to the resentment may be forgotten, while the resentment remains, like a still-smoldering ember left after the flames of a fire die down. The fire no longer rages, but the ember remains hot and at risk of the fire to reignite until it is extinguished.
DAN MAGER
"8 Strategies to Work Through Anger and Resentment", Psychology Today, January 17, 2017
The people you resent are doing the best they can, wiht the materials they have. If you cringe when in their presence, stop and realize what you are facing. You are facing your own reaction, not the other person's. You are facing an apparently uncontrollable emotional reaction that is subconsciously induced. In other words, you are facing a phase of yourself.
RAYMOND CHARLES BARKER
The Science of Successful Living
Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.
NEIL SHUSTERMAN
UnWholly
The reflection calculated above all others to allay resentment is that which the Gospel proposes; namely, that we ourselves are, or shortly shall be, suppliants for mercy and pardon at the judgment-seat of God.
WILLIAM PALEY
Works of William Paley, Archdeacon of Carlisle
The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love.
JOHNNY RICH
The Human Spirit
My resentment is the immediate and the only object of my consciousness; but it would be absurd to infer from this, that my resentment is the immediate object of my resentment.
THOMAS REID
Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind
Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Ecce Homo
It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.
ALLEN DRURY
Into What Far Harbor?
She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
Artificial Gods
Scream older and wiser
Still filled with resentment
We get it, we get it
(I haven't been happier since)
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
"I Am Fred Astaire"
Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them."
AZAR NAFISI
Reading Lolita in Tehran
With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.
SHARON E. RAINEY
Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life