RESENTMENT QUOTES IV

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


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"


Subdue resentment by love.

EUCLID

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

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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

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