Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I still got the nasty in me.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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

Hatred is settled anger.