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Quotes About Vengeance

We can endure this. We endure. We live. We cooperate if we must. And then we find our vengeance.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
~ Arthur Keith
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
~ Arthur Miller
Revenge is an idiot's game.
~ Arthur Morgan
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Sitting there, watching the shades of evening settle slowly on the drab little town, it seemed to me that nothing but blind blundering vengeance, howsoever camouflaged, awaits all those who dare to step out of its stifling confines. It is a confrontation whose outcome is as certain as the end of solitary boats beating against a maelstrom.
~ Arun Joshi
When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
~ Austin Grossman
He closed his eyes, cursing the man to hell. Colt was a dead man.
~ B.J. Daniels
Frank Castle: The sun slipped away behind me, the last sliver seeming to pause on the horizon, then succumbing to the black. And I drove on through the shadows of America... though the long, cold, dark night that I've made of my life.
~ Garth Ennis
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhalations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.
~ George Eliot
In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.
~ George Eliot
By George Eliot   Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:   There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires   That trample on the dead to seize their spoil,   Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible   As exhalations laden with slow death,   And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys   Breathes pallid pestilence.
~ George Eliot
Three nails driven into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of earthly struggle; that luxury of vengeance having been suggested to her by the picture of Jael destroying Sisera in the old Bible.
~ George Eliot
He threatens many that hath injured one.
~ Ben Jonson
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
~ Epictetus
Sredni Vashtar went forth,His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.
~ Saki
Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.
~ Samuel Beckett
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
~ Samuel Johnson
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.
~ Sandra Dallas
Often those I treat well are just the ones who most harm me vainly You I want to suffer In me I know it
~ Sappho
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool my bestfriend your dead freakin meat
~ Sara Shepard
She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen. Even if it killed her.
~ Sara Shepard