RESENTMENT QUOTES II
quotations about resentment
Resentment is an attempt to make our own failure palatable by explaining it in terms of unfair treatment, injustice. But, as a salve for failure, resentment is a cure that is worse than the disease.
MAXWELL MALTZ
Psycho-Cybernetics
Resentment is the one great enemy of good and right relationships. It'll destroy friendships and turn friends into enemies. But the most damaging effect of resentment is the total destruction of the person who's willing to hold on to it.
GEORGE A. HAFLEY
Your Way Is Not God's Way
A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.
PAUL RUSSELL
The Coming Storm
Frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.
TAITE ADAMS
E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
If resentment is a device which enables man to survive, it does not enable him, necessarily, to survive healthily. It is not a real exercise of freedom. It is not a genuine expression of personal integrity. It is the mute, animal protest of a mistreated psychophysical organism.
THOMAS MERTON
New Seeds of Contemplation
Life ain't always fair, but hell is living in resentment.
KESHA
"Learn to Let Go"
Resentment is notable among the emotions for its lack of any specific desire. In this, it is not the same as envy--a kindred emotion--which has the advantage of being quite specific and based on desire. Envy wants, even if it cannot obtain and has no right to do so. If resentment has a desire, it is, typically, the total annihilation, prefaced by utter humiliation, of its target.
ROBERT C. SOLOMON
"Nietzsche, Postmodernism, and Resentment: A Geneological Hypothesis", Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra
We needed resentment ... as it was resentment which identified and underlined the wrong. Without these reactive attitudes, we ran the risk of diminishing our sense of right and wrong, because we could end up thinking it just doesn't matter.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Resentment is like swallowing a seed from the elephant nettle: soon our whole insides will ache from top to bottom from its stinging, and we won't have the vaguest idea how to get rid of it.
EKNATH EASWARAN
Love Never Faileth
A sonic declaration of spite
And resentment
Its resonance grinding to dust our souls
The twine of revenge tightly strung
MESHUGGAH
"Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion"
No man will so speedily and violently resent a supposed wrong, as he who is most accustomed to inflict injuries upon his associates.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON
Proverbs for the People
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Resentment is a union of sorrow and malignity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Select Essays
Resentment is also a way of making us feel important. Many people get a perverse satisfaction from feeling "wronged." The victim of injustice, the one who has been unfairly treated, is morally superior to those who caused the injustice.
MAXWELL MALTZ
Psycho-Cybernetics
Resentment is the residue of forced change.
LEONARD PITTS, JR.
"Can we all get along? Apparently not", Miami Herald, March 10, 2017
Resentment festers, causing continuing feelings of bitterness. It impedes happiness. You cannot be happy and resentful at the same time.
MARY JANE WARR
Making Sense of Self-Esteem
The resentment of a good man is the hardest thing to bear.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Resentment is a union of sorrow and malignity, a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid, with a passion which all concur to detest.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Rambler, December 24, 1751
Resentment is a natural part of life. In fact, if you do not experience resentment, you are emotionally numb. Thousands of children starve to death every day. How can you not feel resentment, unless you are numb?
SHELLY ARISTIZABAL
This is Your Year: To Design and Live the Life of Your Dreams
Resentment is a mental resistance to, a non-acceptance of, something which has already happened ... an emotional rehashing, or re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible--change the past.
MAXWELL MALTZ
Psycho-Cybernetics