Quotes About Consequences

You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.

So many mistakes. So many errors. So much tragedy as a result. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.

But anger can be dangerous and have unintended consequences.

It's hard for a snake to go back to Hell once its had a taste of Heaven.

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

There was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.

Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

And that's all life was—a series of choices and their consequences.

Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.

Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.

The room was filled with the electricity of mistakes about to be made.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Seminal coming-of-age tale. Intense adolescent friendship gone awry. Having to face yourself because of your own ugly deeds. Did Gene bounce the branch on purpose? Of course he did. Whether he realized it or not. No one else in class wanted to believe it. "It was an accident," the pert and pretty Jenna said. She sounded almost desperate. "He couldn't. He just wouldn't. They

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

You plant a seed thinking it's love. It's only when the thing starts putting down roots that you realise it's not growing the way it should. But by then it's too late. It has sprouted foliage, blossomed and borne demented fruit. What do you do with the sickness in you?

Si Emma Bovary n'avait pas lu tous ces romans, il est possible que son sort aurait été différent.

When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.

a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

stupidity can be as bad as malice

He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant -- that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.

But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.

He who plots revenge must dig two graves.