Quotes about Resentment

Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.

Envy is the offspring of pride,

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Holding on to silent resentment makes you a prisoner in your own mind and emotions.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.