Quotes About Revenge

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. (p.225)

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail.

If there are only four possible endings to any story – comedy, tragedy, revenge and forgiveness –

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

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.

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.

Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don't think such stories have any novelty value.

While Antony had gazed in sorrow at his fallen adversary on the battlefield of Philippi, his youthful colleague had shed no tears. Instead, ordering Brutus's corpse decapitated, he had packed the head off to Rome. There, with pointed symbolism, it had been placed at the foot of the statue where Caesar had died.

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

My ex-wife thought that the grass was greener on the other side . . . so now she's mowing someone else's lawn.

True peace cannot be obtained through force, it can only be contained. Peace requires understanding, defeat can create bitter hearts and minds wanting to seek revenge.

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

I WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!

Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.

before she could scream. Kestrel clutched at the blood pouring from her neck and staggered back, pummeled by the wind. Blister took another step and stabbed Kestrel in the heart with her poisonous tail. The SkyWing collapsed to the rocks, thrashing in agony. Her mouth opened to scream curses or breathe fire at her murderers, but only dark red blood bubbled out.

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO," Glory roared. "Too late," Tsunami said. "Since that's kind of already happened. The volcano part, I mean. He's a pile of ashes now.

The SkyWing was holding the severed head of Queen Glory of the RainWings.

They should just find the dragon who did it and give them a slow, horrible death. Perhaps by making them listen to Starflight talk for the next hundred years.