Rancor Quotes

“There are many people for whom hate and rage pay a higher dividend of immediate satisfaction than love. Congenitally aggressive, they soon become adrenaline addicts, deliberately indulging psychically stimulated endocrines. Knowing that on self-assertion always ends by evoking other and hostile self-assertions, they sedulously cultivate their truculence. And, sure enough, very soon they find themselves in the thick of a fight. But a fight is what they most enjoy; for it is while they are fighting that their blood chemistry makes them feel most intensely themselves. "Feeling good", they naturally assume that they *are good. Adrenalin addiction is rationalized as Righteous Indignation and finally, like the prophet Jonah, they are convinced, unshakably, that they do well to be angry.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

“The dragon spits fire, what extinguishes its tears. When we live in rancor, we are born to be old. (Le dragon crache du feu, - Ce qui éteint ses larmes. - Quand on vit de rancune, - On naît pour être vieux.)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Hatred, rancor and grudge, they are not humanity elements; but you need to have them to survive.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Vingativo? Eu gostaria de comer o teu rosto a dentadas enquanto tu gritas até enlouquecer.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Eu guardo rancores de tudo e todos, catalogando-os por gênero e grau; até acorrentá-los com o contorno de letras governadas por mim.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste.”
― Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

“[...] despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To the people, Morel was the hero of a cause that had nothing to do with nations and political ideologies, a cause that had nothing to do with Africa and touched what was deepest in them — a secret rancor — a confused dream of being able one day to emerge victorious from the difficulty of being a man. They were staking a claim to respectful and decent treatment.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Seguir em frente nao significa se esquivar da verdade, mas, sim, buscar a felcidade apesar da dor latente.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, O Diario Real

“Quédate siempre detrás del hombre que dispara y delante del hombre que está cagando. Así estás a salvo de las balas y de la mierda.”
― Octavio Paz