John Updike Quotes

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

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

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

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Hate today, no love for tomorrow

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

Hatred makes us all ugly.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.