Quotes and Sayings About Resentment
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Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
-- Alana Stewart -
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope -
Expectations are resentments under construction.
-- Anne Lamott -
Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
-- Anne Lamott -
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
-- Anne Lamott -
Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
-- Barbara Sher -
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
-- Betty MacDonald -
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
-- Bob Dylan -
Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
-- Brian Austin Green -
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
-- Charles Churchill -
Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
-- Christopher Durang -
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
-- Christopher Lee -
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
-- Confucius -
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
-- D. H. Lawrence -
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -
-- Dorothy Koomson -
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
-- Edward Sapir -
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
-- Eric Hoffer -
So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha -
I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.
-- Glenda Jackson
