Quotes About Being Wronged By Someone

#1. Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Confucius

#3. The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Geronimo

#4. Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Charles Fourier

#5. Children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Virginia H. Pearce

#7. He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

Stephen Harrigan

#8. As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.

Gregory Maguire

#9. So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

Wally Lamb

#10. The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

#11. The worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.

Walter Scott

#12. You can not aspire for redemption by asking for your reputation back. Redemption requires action, and a reputation is either defended or it is earned.

Leot Felton

#13. My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

LZ Granderson

#14. Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic.

James E. Faust

#15. My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail.

Alexandra Lanc

#16. I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

Sigrid Undset

#17. We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice ... when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.

Miguel Ruiz

#18. I suppose it's human tendency to treat the people who you've wronged badly though, isn't it? Easier to dismiss them if you can pretend they're subhuman.

Lindsay Buroker

#19. In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

Colson Whitehead

#20. The wronged side is always the safest.

Richard Sibbes

#21. Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Kristen Ashley

#23. If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Malcolm Turnbull

#24. Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.

Muhammad

#25. And why does man get angry? Because he feels threatened or wronged. And why does he feel threatened? Because he does not believe he is safe. Why? Because he is afraid of God and so cannot trust him.

Ted Dekker

#26. You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Ambrose Bierce

#27. When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.

Menander

#28. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

Ben Greenhalgh

#29. The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#30. I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

Nicole Brossard

#32. The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

W. H. Auden

#33. ...if your dear heart is wronged, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#34. Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.

Michael Leunig

#35. I think, Calder, that we have to figure out how to forgive, not for the people who wronged us, but for us.

Mia Sheridan

#36. I'm crying because I feel wronged. I keep making mistakes and nothing seems to work for me.

Suh Jung

#37. I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]

Karen Maitland

#38. A lot of people love their hate. They live to hate the people wronged them. You cain't just have one gang. That don't even make sense. If you took away the white man's black man or the black man's white man, most of 'em wouldn't even know how to walk down the street right.

Walter Mosley

#39. If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Miroslav Volf

#40. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

- J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel

John Wayne

#41. The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Charles Buxton

#42. Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

Lewis B. Smedes

#43. I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Geronimo

#44. Asking forgiveness is not ALWAYS an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way.

The Eldest

#45. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Jack Abramoff

#46. The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Abraham Lincoln

#47. It's what everyone wants when they're breaking someone's heart: to be rid of the person and yet absolved of guilt, of the unhappiness they've caused. They want their rationalizations heard and gulped up by the wronged, and they want their victims to go away, peacefully. To never be haunted again.

Ibi Kaslik

#48. It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.

Charlotte Lamb

#49. If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

Nicole Galland

#50. When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it
fight back!

Donald J. Trump

#51. When fate wronged me, I had not the wisdom to remain cool: I turned desperate; then I degenerated.

Charlotte Bronte

#52. My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Jessica Capshaw

#53. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don't tell them they aren't. Sit with them and have a drink.

Lemony Snicket

#54. ....what I'm really saying is that you knew, somewhere deep inside you knew that he wasn't the one for you. I've always wondered with people who get divorced if the wronged party hadn't seen it coming.

Jordan Silver

#55. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#56. Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Greg Cox

#57. Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

C. Scott Grow

#58. When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

Lewis B. Smedes

#59. Let Allah will deal with the people who wronged you in this life, because too much hate will eventually consume you to

Boonaa Mohammed

#60. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#61. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#62. The universe takes care of iniquities, of people who have been wronged, of injustices that the world can't right.

Courtney Cole

#63. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

Korie Robertson

#64. is not a manifesto for action, a list of crimes to be avenged, a litany of positions to be reversed or a collection of rights to be wronged.

Sidin Vadukut

#65. A cloud that has gathered over us; though 'we have wronged no man, corrupted no man, defrauded no man!' Though perhaps we have 'done that which was right in our own eyes.

Thomas Hardy

#66. So. Tell me, little wolf. Do you want to punish those who have wronged you?

Marie Lu

#67. Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

John Kador

#68. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

#69. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

Donna Lynn Hope

#70. Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

Dan Groat

#71. We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Jane Hamilton

#72. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

#73. A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

Jodi Picoult

#74. The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged

Richard Ashworth

#75. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

Leo Buscaglia

#76. He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.

Simone Signoret

#77. Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.

Moliere

#78. Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged.

Edmond Manning

#79. At one point I found myself simultaneously cursing him and reaching for the phone to call him and tell him all about how my terrible husband had wronged me, as if there were two versions of him: the imposter who had just hurt me, and the real Tom, who would curse imposter Tom and make it all better.

Camille Pagan

#80. A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.

Ken Follett

#81. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

G.K. Chesterton

#82. The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

Sterling W. Sill

#83. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.

Maddy Malhotra

#84. I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

Elizabeth Vargas

#85. You are necessary to that end, and to me...you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of the One. And if you have wronged, then I have surely repaid your wrong twice over.

Tosca Lee

#86. When someone has wronged you, continue to treat them with civility. It's the ultimate mark of a mensch.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#87. I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to the people we have wronged.

J.M. Coetzee

#88. They say that Death embellishes its victims and exaggerates their virtues, but in general it is actually life that wronged them. Death, that pious and irreproachable witness, teaches us, in both truth and charity, that in each man there is usually more good than evil.

Marcel Proust

#89. Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

Victoria Osteen

#90. Ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.

Bram Stoker

#91. I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.

Emily Bronte

#92. I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

Tony Campolo

#93. He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Simone Signoret

#94. The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God's mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn't wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God's mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#95. Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you; sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.

J'son M. Lee

#96. The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

Douglas Adams

#97. I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

John Prescott

#98. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#99. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Sulla

#100. For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Euripides