quotations about resentment
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
Resentment is a symptom that somewhere, somehow I have compromised myself.
DUSHKA ZAPATA
"The 9 Personal Boundaries I Don't Permit Anyone to Cross", Huffington Post, December 7, 2017
Resentment is not usually revealed because the person feeling the resentment is not particularly proud of it. In fact, they are often frightened by its existence.
MARY JANE WARR
Making Sense of Self-Esteem
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
Subdue resentment by love.
EUCLID
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Deluded whispers
Burned out memories reprise
The silent resentment
Sinking over vacant eyes
DISMANTLED
"Human"
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
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"
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters