Resentment Quotes

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge… or harboring resentment… or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.

~ Steve Maraboli

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

~ Orson Scott Card

Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.

~ Suzy Kassem

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

„Oliver paused for a few seconds, then leaned forward with his elbows braced on his knees, pale hands dangling. “When I was . . . transformed, I thought in the beginning that I could stay with those mortals I loved. It isn’t smart. You should understand this by now. We stay apart for a reason.”“You stay apart so you don’t feel guilty for doing what it is you do,” I shot back. “I’m not like you. I’ll never be like you. Best of all, I don’t have to be.

~ Rachel Caine

An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…

~ Assegid Habtewold

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

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

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

I heard Tash say: Nomi, you’re sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some can’t and those who can will always be infinitely cooler than those you can’t and I’m one of the ones who can’t because you’re one of the ones who did and there’s this old guy in a wool suit sitting in an empty house who has no one but me now thank you very, very, very much.

~ Miriam Toews

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

~ Hugh Howey

They hate people and their stories; they have hated for so long and with such intensity that in the end the darkness enveloped their whole bodies until their shapes were no longer discernible. That is also why they are so difficult to defeat, because they can disappear into walls or into the ground or float up. They're ferocious and bloodthirsty, and if you're bitten by one you don't just die; a far more serious and terrible fate lies in store: you lose your imagination. (talking about shadows)

~ Fredrik Backman

Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.

~ Debasish Mridha

Anger, resentment and disappointment, in most cases, can not exist in our lives without our expressed permission. An honest and sincere introspection will reveal that all three emotions are centered and rooted in self. They are self preserving reactions sprung to life by our inconveniently unmet expectations. Joy and contentment replaces these emotions when we genuinely put others before ourselves. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

~ Anne Cassidy

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

~ Samantha Leahy

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

~ Andy Stanley

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and should have. It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.

~ Julie-Anne

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reacyhed out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.

~ Jennifer Brown

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.

~ Paul Hoffman

The feeling of resentment and inferiority is natural and nothing much can be done about it. What can be done is to think, where these feelings will lead you? If you want to be a winner in life, if you want to reach the top, then make sure that these feelings of resentment and inferiority lead you to nothing else but aspiration!

~ Abhishek Ratna

...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...

~ John Geddes

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.

~ Víctor Del Árbol

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

~ N.k. Jemisin

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.

~ Macdonald Harris

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

~ Suzy Kassem

Interestingly, do you know who is the most difficult person to love? It is easy to love friends and not too difficult to love those less fortunate than ourselves. It certainly isn't easy loving enemies, but sometimes the person most difficult to love is the one who is MORE fortunate than we are. The one who receives the promotion we deserved. The one who gets the recognition we desired, the honor we sought or the affections of the lover we had hoped to win. It is easy to resent those who seem to be more fortunate – those who “get all the breaks.

~ Steve Goodier

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

~ Otsuichi

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death.

~ Philippa Gregory

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.

~ Steve Maraboli

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If someone treads on my hand accidentally, while trying to help me, the pain may be no less acute than if he treads on it in contemptuous disregard of my existence or with a malevolent wish to injure me. But I shall generally feel in the second case a kind and degree of resentment that I shall not feel in the first. If someone's actions help me to some benefit I desire, then I am benefited in any case; but if he intended them so to benefit me because of his general goodwill towards me, I shall reasonably feel a gratitude which I should not feel at all if the benefit was an accidental consequence unintended or even regretted by him, of some plan of action with a different aim.

~ Peter Frederick Strawson

There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.

~ Azar Nafisi

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

~ Richard Rohr