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Quotes About Revenge

He looked at her as if she were already one of the ugly nameless bodies in the mortuary, and with a medical man's sober, somewhat cynical mind, he saw her in front of him, stripped and sliced open. That was his revenge. He caught himself regarding the whole world in that way.
~ Erik Fosnes Hansen
Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Die Rache der Sprache ist das Gedicht
~ Ernst Jandl
When we select a partner, we commit to a story, yet we remain forever curious. What other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peak at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
Revenge often looks petty, but I have come to respect the depth of hurt it conceals.
~ Esther Perel
Revenge may not always be sweet, but occasionally it hits a sweet spot that empowers the hurt party and allows a couple to put the past behind them. We all have a need for justice. However, it is important to distinguish between retributive justice and restorative justice. The former seeks only punishment; the latter engages in repair.
~ Esther Perel
As children we have the opportunity to play at other roles; as adults we often find ourselves confined by the ones we've been assigned or the ones we have chosen. When we select a partner, we commit to a story. Yet we remain forever curious: What other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peek at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
When we select a partner, we commit to a story. Yet we remain forever curious: what other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peek at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
I'll be waiting to welcome you with that "my old pal" stuff, and give you the glad hand, and at the first good chance I get stab you in the back.
~ Eugene O'Neill
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
FUCK THAT NOISE. I'M GOING TO RIP HIM TO PIECES.
~ Andrew Mayne
Revenge may be sweet, but it is also most expensive
~ Andrew Roberts
Revenge may be sweet, but it is also most expensive .
~ Andrew Roberts
There is no fencing term I'm aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it felt like when I heard his final words. I'd
~ Andrew Rowe
Y a nosotros no nos queda más que la venganza. Una venganza terrible y cruel, de la que todavía circularán leyendas dentro de cien años. Leyendas que la gente temerá escuchar cuando caiga la noche.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
No. I'm a witcher! When they were teaching me, I swore I would act against Evil. Always. And without thinkin...' 'Because when you start thinking,' she added hollowly, 'killing stops making sense. Revenge stops making sense.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
~ Angela Carter
Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.
~ Angela Carter
She was the very embodiment of why a man should never do wrong by a woman. Revenge could be bloody awkward.
~ Angela Verdenius
Dandra Draa killed my father. - Kaznim
~ Angie Sage
Your happiness is the greatest revenge against those who bring you down.
~ Anmol Andore
Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.
~ Hank Williams Jr.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
~ Confucius