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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

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

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

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

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.