Resentment Quotes · Page 5

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

— Anne Lamott

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

— Gordon S. Wood

If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.

— A. J. Odudu

“Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I know a thing about resentment: it is a poison you drink yourself, expecting others to die.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”

— Anonymous

I've never had any resentment about being a reality TV star.

— The Miz

“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

— John Irving

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

— Scott Hahn

“Love is a thing that you can’t take out of you. Once it’s there, it doesn’t go away, no matter what. Love…

— Renée Carlino

I think there may have been somewhat of a backlash against me because I have been successful too easily. I think there's…

— Ken Wahl

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

— Nora Roberts

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different…

— Ian Curtis

A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to…

— Neil Gaiman

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and…

— John Adams

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is…

— Sir Fulke Greville

I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day,…

— Katy Rose

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little…

— Frank Herbert

Favorite-son candidates almost always win their states decisively in presidential elections. But their status as national celebrities can end up breeding fatigue…

— Steve Kornacki

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations…

— Robert Greene

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a…

— Sydney J. Harris

“The other gods weren’t like this. They were still young and strong and gorgeous. Aging around the edges, but what could anyone…

— A.E. Mayer

“When John left the band, I resented him for not being my friend and for abandoning our musical comradeship. But all the…

— Anthony Kiedis

Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply…

— Doreen Virtue

You know, I have never seen the level of anger and frustration and resentment and even disgust among millions of Americans toward…

— Howard Kurtz

“Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego.…

— Eckhart Tolle

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't…

— Brené Brown

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

— Alana Stewart

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

— Cynthia Ozick

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

— Tamlyn Tomita

“everything begins with goodwill will not lead to resentment”

— Denny Dominicus

Don't waste your life on resentment. Some people really spend too much time being angry.

— Anonymous

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

— John Fowles

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

— Rick Perlstein

Holding onto resentment is like killing the patient to cure the disease.

— Anonymous