Unforgiveness Quotes

“One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret

“But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

“There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite. For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. It will itself be ashamed of its imaginings, but yet it will recall it all, it will go over and over every detail, it will invent unheard of things against itself, pretending that those things might happen, and will forgive nothing. Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial ways, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself. On its deathbed it will recall it all over again, with interest accumulated over all the years…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.”
― Ron Brackin, Forgive Your Way to Better Health, Greater Productivity, and World Peace

“You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”
― Mac Canoza

“Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone

“To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It's easy to preach forgiveness when your name is not on the manifest”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor

“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.”
― Tracey Bond, Spirit Fed Entrepreneur: Growing Your Business with a Fearless Mindset

“Unforgiveness is a poison that shrivels the heart. It means a person cannot truly live in the present as they're always thinking about the past.”
― Carolyn Miller

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Unforgiveness gets a bad reputation, but allow me to say something that perhaps has never been said before. The deeper the depths of the heart, the deeper goes the wound, the harder it is to forgive. A heartless person can forgive you overnight, there is no real pain there. Sometimes what they've lauded as forgiveness, is actually the absence of sentiment, the absence of human soul. Many of the unforgiving are the deepest souls and biggest hearts of this planet, in a world that is not good enough for them.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The only unforgivable thing here is to not forgive.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Someone once said that unforgiveness was like a poison you drink while hoping for someone else to die.”
― Jennifer Heng, Walking out of Secret Shame

“Unforgiveness is so much stress, I tell you. You just keep going round in circles instead of taking a straight path which forgiveness offers.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia

“A prolonged unforgiveness is a prolonged destruction mindset”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I certainly struggled with anger and resentment for quite some time."
"And how did you change?"
"God used Aunt Drusilla to help me see that unforgiveness binds, but forgiving sets us free. It actually does us more good because our heart is not so cluttered with poisonous thoughts against others. So I had to ask God to help me, forgive me, in order to forgive others. I still do. I certainly do not mean to imply that I am never angry or resentful, simply that I am learning to not let such emotions possess me. (The Making of Mrs. Hale)”
― Carolyn Miller, The Making of Mrs. Hale

“Your forgiveness is in response to the unbelievable and undeserved forgiveness that Christ offers you and if you don't forgive you are unforgiven Matthew 6:15”
― John M Sheehan

“An unforgiving mind would always at every opportunity drag you into their bottomless pit of NEGATIVITY”
― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai

“I chose love over hatred, bitterness, and unforgiveness.”
― Aliette St. Hilaire, Who Could Have Imagined . . . Change Your Perspective, Transform Your Destiny

“An act so vile, even unforgivable from a mother.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The shadows of estrangement, anger and unforgiveness wear black hoodies for disguise and inhabit the darkest corners of your life, and the furthermost caverns of your mind. They are the unwelcome stalkers that
never really leave you alone. They’re the ugly presence of despair, grief, regret and sorrow. They are forever rising up to blame you and point accusing, angry fingers.”
― Roger Macdonald Andrew, Forgive: Finding Inner Peace Through Words of Wisdom

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of
unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing through and dipping into these pages and savouring the Words of Wisdom embedded in the writers’ thoughts, it has all been well worth it.”
― Roger Macdonald Andrew, Forgive: Finding Inner Peace Through Words of Wisdom

“Un-forgiveness is like debris, if you continue to pile them up, your mind will be occupied with the unwanted and there would be no space for the needed.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events suffered in the past remembered only to justify evils done in the present.”
― Criss Jami