Grievance Quotes

“The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“In trying moments, you must keep trying... In grieving times, don't think of giving up! Employ your passion to work; something great to enjoy is approaching!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways our lives have been diminished by its bureaucracies and actions. One of the differences between the collectivists and the individualists is that those wrongs are front and center for the individualists, whereas the collectivists are blind to those wrongs, or they excuse those wrongs, or they forgive those wrongs. "Use us," the collectivists say, while they throw not only themselves into the bottomless pit that is the Administrative State, but everybody else too.”
― Mike Klepper

“So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Jack

“The affairs of the past are like the waters flowing by: they cannot be returned.”
― Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel), Vol. 2

“I’m not afraid to die. But what worries me the most about death is the heartache I’ll be causing those who love me.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Beware the storyteller with a huge grievance and an artistic license.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong,’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.”
― Lindsay Armstrong, When Only Diamonds Will Do

“If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Here is a brief test to help you determine whether the story you have been telling to yourself and others is a grievance story.
1. Have you told your story more than twice to the same person?
2. Do you replay the events that happened more than two times in a day in your mind?
3. Do you find yourself speaking to the person who hurt you even when that person is not there?
4. Have you made a commitment to yourself to tell the story without upset and then found yourself unexpectedly agitated?
5. is the person who hurt you the central character of your story?
6. When you tell this story, does it remind you of other painful things that have happened to your?
7. Does your story focus primarily on your pain and what you have lost?
8. in your story is there a villain?
9. Have you made a commitment to yourself to not tell your story and and then broken you vow?
10. Do you look for other people with similar problems to tell you story to?
11. Has your story stared the same over time?
12. Have you checked the details of your story for accuracy?”
― Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness

“The three cycles of loss center on our sense of control, safety, and identity.”
― Laurie Nadel

“If this is for real,
Please don't!!!
We are all struggling one way or the other, a lot of pains on told, a lot of tears retained, a lot of actions revoked, a lot of plans annulled, if am to continue, I definitely have enough words to continue, but non can qualify my thoughts, non can transcribe my very mind, so, in short, don't give up, it's just some few more steps, don't be swallowed up”
― Daniel I. OWOEYE

“è stato davvero un colpo di genio misurare il dolore per gradi, attribuirgli un limite e una categoria. C'è chi sostiene che il dolore sia interminabile e non si esaurisca mai, eppure io credo che dopo il decimo grado della mia scala non resti altro che la memoria delle cose, che ferisce ormai solo nel ricordo.”
― Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories