quotations about revenge
Revenge is a favorite theme of mine. I like the idea of an underdog, laying broken and almost defeated, pulling himself from the dust. I like thinking that this can happen in real life. That the person who has been wronged can muster the will and strength needed to rise up and take down the person responsible for all their malaise is what makes revenge so awesome in film. I know real life is not so kind to such theories, but on film, you will not find a more excellent theme than revenge.
REMY CARREIRO
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"Five Incredible Revenge Movies Not Enough People Have Seen", TV Overmind, February 9, 2016
We live today in a world wracked by revenge. Nations at sword's point. Peoples against peoples. Hate brewing in men's hearts. And yet we hear it said "Revenge is sweet." We everyday folk are often infected by that hoary sophism. But it misstates the dangerous side of a fundamentally noble trait of human nature, self-defense. Unbridled revenge is about the bitterest thing on earth.
GARRET SMITH
Living Sparks of Life
If I were going to set out to oppress other people, I would surely prefer to select for my victims persons whose first response is forgiveness rather than persons whose first response is revenge.
JEFFRIE G. MURPHY
Getting Even
Revenge is a fervor in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Scum, filth, anger and greed
Walks along beside of me
Chaos, darkness on a violent binge
This is our world according to revenge
MURDERDOLLS
"The World According to Revenge"
The very design of revenge is troublesome, and puts the spirits into an unnatural fermentation and tumult. The man that meditates it is always restless, his very soul is stung, swells and boils, is in pain and anguish, hath no ease, no enjoyment of itself, so long as this passion reigns. The execution of it may perhaps be attended with some present pleasure, but that pleasure is unreasonable and brutish, momentary and short, like a flash of lightning, which vanisheth in the twinkling of an eye.
ISAAC BARROW
sermon XXXIII
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
When violence hurries on too fast, and caution does not keep pace with revenge, people generally do themselves more harm than the enemy.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Revenge is what we call that sturdy horse, Self-Defense, when it runs amuck. Curb it and train it to stick to the road, and it will carry you far.
GARRET SMITH
Living Sparks of Life
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, The Power of One
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Revenge, like some poisonous plant, replete with baneful juices, rankles in the breast, and meditates mischief to its neighbour.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
TIM LAHAYE & BOB PHILLIPS
Anger is a Choice
It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.
ROBERT BARR
"The Vengeance of the Dead", The English Illustrated Magazine, 1894
Little grave I'm grieving, I will mend you
Sweet revenge I'm dreaming, I will end you
I've been here since dawn of time
Countless hatreds built my shrine
I was born in anger's flame
He was Abel, I was Cain
I am here
I'm hell unbound
Burn your kingdom to the ground
To the ground
METALLICA
"Here Comes Revenge"
Don't want no revenge
Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the Reckoning Day
MEGADETH
"Reckoning Day"
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King