Grudge Quotes

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

“Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.”
― Tom Giaquinto

“I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge' because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, One Silent Night

“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.”
― Mario Puzo, Fools Die

“I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Your jealousy will last longer than the joy of those you are jealous of.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If sincere, an apology is strong enough to uproot anger, bitterness, and grudges instantly. Its benefits are unlimited since they tend to set everyone free!”
― Alis Cerrahyan, Dance Like Nobody's Watching

“Don't mention your fortune in front of an unfortunate.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We forget what we say much more than what we hear, what we write much more than what we read, what we send much more than what we receive, that is why we barely count the insults we hand out to others, unlike those dealt out to us, which is why almost everyone harbors some grudge against someone.”
― Javier Marías, Fever and Spear

“An ability of counting the other people's blessings in place of your own blessings is called jealousy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Life is what happens when you’re wasting time holding a grudge against people who aren’t spending a single moment thinking of you. ”
― Steve Maraboli

“I was asked about an emotional hack for letting go... Here's the truth; They are NEVER going to be sorry enough... You want THEM to bleed from the cut they gave YOU. It doesn't work that way. When you realize this, you can finally save your emotional energy and free yourself from the burden of holding a grudge... You can move on.”
― Steve Maraboli

“If you hold a grudge eventually that will be all you can hold.”
― Jodi Livon

“What job have I hired this grudge to do?”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“Well, let me tell you, your recollection of every last detail has nothing to do with memory. It's called holding a goddamn grudge. ...

That's what I remember the most, not addresses but pain - that old lump-in-the-throat conviction that the world had fingered me for abuse and neglect. Is that the same as a grudge?”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Something to forgive is a purer joy than geometry.”
― William Golding, Free Fall

“If we think of our life as a journey [...] we don't want to move into our future lugging along the heavy baggage of our past. One way to lighten the load is to work on forgiveness and acceptance.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“She's only alive because of you,' Jack spits, but the blood drains from his face.

'Right, because I'm the one who buried a dagger in your shoulder at Threshing.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Forgive moving forward; begrudge to go backward. It doesn't take any strength to hold a grudge.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“If you've turned up after all these years just to break Tita Rosie's heart again, I'll kill you. I'm serious. And Ate Bernie will help me hide the body," I said, bringing up his ex-girlfriend and my cousin/friend.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka

“I wasn't sure I'd been born with the ability to forgive. Not for terrors inflicted on those I loved. For myself, I didn't care- not nearly as much. But there was some fundamental pillar of steel in me that could not bend or break in this. Could not stomach the idea of letting these people get away with what they'd done.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Don't let the errors or terrors of the past or any fear you might have about them in the here and now, spoil today, tomorrow - or even one more second of your life. Just don't! Don't worry about them! Don't commiserate about them! Don't dwell on them! Don't beat yourself (or anyone else!) up about them! Don't hold grudges over them! Let them go, and accept that each new day, each hour even - is actually, in many ways, independent of the last. What a gift! Embrace it! Learn to be grateful for this miracle of life!”
― Connie Kerbs