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Quotes About Vengeance

She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!
~ Stuart Hill
I'm gonna kill them, Sam. I'm gonna find who broke you, who made you think and feel this way about yourself, and I'm going to f*cking end them, Princess." "I'm not your concern, Demon." "I'm making you my concern.
~ Susan Bliler
In A Tale of Two Cities Madame Defarge makes sinister use of a nurturant task, her knitting, to implement her vengeance. Childless and driven, she embodies the terrifying excesses of the French Revolution.
~ Susan Brownmiller
You never know what Nature may do. She has ways of her own of getting even with people," remarked her friend, solemnly.
~ Susan Coolidge
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
~ Holly Black, Valiant
She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]
~ Jenna Streety
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides, Medea
If God is a loving God He will forgive us Himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His Image.
~ Miriam Toews
Nos sentiremos angustiadas y apenadas, y sentiremos incertidumbre, y tristeza, pero no culpabilidad, dice Agata. Mariche corrige: Puede que nos sintamos culpables, pero sabremos que no lo somos Podríamos tener sentimientos homicidas, pero sabremos que no somos asesinas. Podríamos sentir sed de venganza, pero sabremos que no somos mapaches. Podríamos sentirnos perdidas, pero sabremos que no somos unas perdidas.
~ Miriam Toews
I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she'd put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.
~ Naomi Novik
And if you have been lying about it, Iskierka put in, having roused enough from her napping to follow the conversation, with slitted eyes, you may be quite sure you will all be sorry: if anything has happened to my egg, I will burn everything between here and whatever house Napoleon is hiding in, and then I will set *that* on fire, too.
~ Naomi Novik
Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era venganza. La venganza no existe. Lo única que importa es la verdad.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados. Allí pueden medrar, adquirir poder con que darse aires y sobre todo vengarse de todos aquellos que han logrado con su trabajo y su talento lo que ellos nunca han conseguido ni siquiera rozar al tiempo que declaran, con aire de santidad y sacrificio, que todo lo hacen por el servicio a la patria
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
forgiveness is a complex act of consciousness, one that liberates the psyche and soul from the need for personal vengeance and the perception of oneself as a victim.
~ Caroline Myss
Deceived wives could purchase a gun, take lessons, and receive a cheating-husband hunting license complete with a big red A label to tie to the man's zipper after the kill. Open season could be scheduled months in advance to give the husbands a fighting chance. They could hide in refuges or stay home and take their chances at being shot through the living room window as they watched Monday Night Football.
~ Carolyn Brown
Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.
~ Charlaine Harris
It's not that I approve of murder—but some people just beg to be killed, don't they?
~ Charlaine Harris
I love Lady Stoneheart!
~ Richard Madden
Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife.
~ Thomas Hardy
For about ten minutes the vengeful crew proceed to maim, strangle, poison, burn, stomp, blind and otherwise have at Pasquale, while he describes intimately his varied sensations for our enjoyment.
~ Thomas Pynchon
But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.' 'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.
~ Katherine Neville
Love is self-serving – we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be willing to enact another person's vengeance?' It was a disturbing manifestation of devotion; one that seeded itself uncomfortably in Grace's imagination.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'
~ Keith O'Brien
True justice is dispensed in alleys.
~ Ken Bruen