Lauren Oliver Quotes

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

There is a chip on my shoulder, both shoulders, yes sir.

At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.