quotations about resentment
It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.
ALLEN DRURY
Into What Far Harbor?
There is a saying that when you resent somebody, you become his or her slave. The stronger the resentment is, the more time you spend thinking about it, caught up in the anger connected to it. This is a form of mental, emotional, and spiritual bondage. Ultimately, the person holding the resentment is the one who suffers most.
DAN MAGER
"8 Strategies to Work Through Anger and Resentment", Psychology Today, January 17, 2017
every crash of ever wave sends me crashing back to point zero intact with self resentment dissolved and slowly boiled in a bowl of sweet lies
THIS DAY FORWARD
"Ripple Effect"
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
Deluded whispers
Burned out memories reprise
The silent resentment
Sinking over vacant eyes
DISMANTLED
"Human"
Men are wont to lay aside their resentment when their adversaries suffer.
JOHN WALKER
A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected
Subdue resentment by love.
EUCLID
attributed, Day's Collacon
I hold no grudge
There's no resentment und'neath
I'll extend the laurel wreath and we'll be friends
But right there is where it ends
NINA SIMONE
"I Hold No Grudge"
The temperately revengeful have leisure to weigh the merits of the cause, and thereby either to smother their secret resentments, or to seek adequate reparations for the damages they have sustained.
RICHARD STEELE
The Guardian, August 8, 1713
Resentment is a deadly poison that seems to plague us all at times, even after some time in recovery. It is a problem that will no doubt plague us most of our lives.
ANONYMOUS
Stepping Stones To Recovery For Women
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters