Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
– Carrie Fisher
“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping that someone else will die.”
Helen Garner • Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
“Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die: it’s a waste of time.
Einzelgänger • Stoicism for Inner Peace
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
David Sheff • Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
This is what resentment is: self-inflicted suffering with the emotional poison we wish for another.
don Miguel Ruiz • The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom (Toltec Mastery Series)
resentment does nothing to change the person we resent. Nor does it resolve conflict. Instead of freeing us from the wrongs of others, resentment invites those people and incidents to dominate our thinking—a kind of emotional bondage.
Sharon Salzberg • Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
A Buddhist saying on the ineffectiveness of anger:
“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.”
“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.”