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Quotes About Vengeance

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.
~ Madeline Miller
La presencia de los otros chicos no me aportaba consuelo alguno: nuestros muertos acuden en pos de su venganza sin considerar la presencia de testigos. En el firmamento cobraron forma las estrellas y la luna ocupó su sitio. Cuando los párpados se me cerraron, él me seguía esperando, cubierto de sangre y blanco como la cal, claro que sí. Nadie desea acabar en la negrura sin fin del aveno antes de tiempo. Mi exilio podría aplacar la ira de los vivos, pero no la de los difuntos.
~ Madeline Miller
He recited the story as if he were giving a recipe for meat. The storms that had blown them half across the world. The lands filled with cannibals and vengeful savages, with sybarites who drugged their wills. They had been ambushed by the cyclops Polyphemus, a savage one-eyed giant who was a son of Poseidon. He had eaten half a dozen men and sucked their bones. Odysseus had had to blind him to escape, and now Poseidon hunted them across the waves in vengeance
~ Madeline Miller
Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.
~ Malorie Blackman
That left one missile. That one went to my best guess as to where Control was. Because fuck that guy.
~ John Scalzi
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
~ John Steinbeck
No one hurts my family and lives
~ Elijah
What can I say? Some women are killers.
~ Alyson Serena Stone, Once
Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.
~ Sarah J. Maas
She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
~ Unknown
I'll rid the world of each one of you, " he whispered. "Every single one…
~ Zoe Cruz, Beastia
The world is going too far in these days. As my poor Octave used to say, we have forgotten God too often, and He is taking vengeance upon us.
~ Marcel Proust
Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.
~ Marie Antoinette
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
~ Marie Howe
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Francis Bacon
Whom they have injured they also hate.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
~ Unknown
Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
~ Phil Ochs
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
~ H. G. Bohn
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
~ Charles Simmons
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.
~ Marilyn vos Savant