# Quotes about resentment - Quotes: 19 - Authors: 15 - Broader topic: [Quotes about relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.json ## Quotes > War’s rancours are quick to bite and slow to heal. [John Keegan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keegan.md) · [The First World War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keegan/the-first-world-war.md) · p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keegan/the-first-world-war/wars-rancours-are.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Don’t be bitter, young sir. If you want to go on living you have to be alert. And you can’t be alert and bitter at the same time. [William Tenn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn.md) · [The Wooden Star](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-wooden-star.md) · p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-wooden-star/dont-be-bitter.md) Topics: [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > “Unless you believe it was a coincidence that Melvin the Rat turned up at a party we were hosting.” > > Actually I thought it probably was, but I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason. [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md) · [Tales From The Folly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/tales-from-the-folly.md) · p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/tales-from-the-folly/unless-you-believe.md) Topics: [chance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/chance.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him. [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md) · [Phineas Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/lord-chiltern-recognizes.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > It is an essential aspect of forgiveness. Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time. [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [The Power of Now](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now/it-is-an-essential.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense. [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md) · [Sea of Tranquility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility.md) · p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/everything-offended-jessica.md) Topics: [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness. One of his father’s sayings. [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md) · [The Way of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings.md) · p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/bitterness-is-repaid.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive. [Hope Mirrlees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hope-mirrlees.md) · [Lud-In-The-Mist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hope-mirrlees/lud-in-the-mist.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hope-mirrlees/lud-in-the-mist/pride-and-resentment.md) Topics: [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride-2.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Unhappiness makes people vulnerable, incessant suffering unjust. Just as in the relations between a creditor and a debtor there is always an element of the disagreeable that can never be overcome, for the very reason that the one is irrevocably committed to the role of giver and the other to that of receiver, so in a sick person a latent feeling of resentment at every obvious sign of consideration is always ready to burst forth. [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/unhappiness-makes-people.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [gratitude](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego. Resentment means to feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved, or offended. You resent other people... The ego loves it. Instead of overlooking unconsciousness in others, you make it in to their identity. [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [A New Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/resentment-is-the.md) Topics: [ego](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ego.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/it-is-a-troublesome.md) Topics: [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control. Fear lasted a week, anger a year and resentment a lifetime, he’d held. [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [Matter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter.md) · p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/on-this-purely.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [Jane Eyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/what-a-singularly.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Bofusdiaga says past wrongs cannot be righted because past wrongs are past and time only runs one way. Bofusdiaga says all you independent creatures suffer great wrongs sometime in past, which is normal, but you stay always living in past so you can continue wronged forever! Forever miserable, forever tragical! Bofusdiaga says so long as you go chewing yesterday’s pains, you cannot eat today’s pleasures, so it is no help! [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 453 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/bofusdiaga-says-past.md) Topics: [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md), [the present](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > “They won’t be sensible. All they will do is talk about how they have been wronged. Those jongau, they were also wronged. Bofusdiaga says creatures who think only of how they are wronged cannot help with the dance and everything is lost.” > > Questioner rubbed her head. “If you had asked me, Corojum, I could have told you that those people in the cave would be of no help. They are young, rebellious, and not at all useful. At that age, many young people spend a great deal of time thinking they have been wronged.” [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 453 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/they-wont-be-sensible.md) Topics: [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > Some people, more often men, spend their entire lives awash in bitterness. They rage against injustices done to their forefathers, perhaps centuries in the past. They rage against injustices done to their countrymen, their families. They rage against people who are unlike themselves, who, by virtue of their difference, must be up to no good. They rage against people who are like themselves who do not share their views. They rage against their parents, their wives, their children, and against anyone who is sympathetic to any of these. Their rage is a screen between them and the world, behind which they huddle over their egos, like a caveman over his fire, unable to see out through the smoke. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/some-people-more.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > It was her way to start each conversation with an apology, so she could be offended when the apology was accepted. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Raising The Stones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones.md) · p. 101 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/it-was-her.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > You tend to resent people you’re afraid of. [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md) · [Parable of the Sower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower.md) · p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower/you-tend-to-resent.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md) > It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health. [Marilynne Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson.md) · [Gilead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson/gilead.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson/gilead/it-is-worth.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [resentment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment.md)