50 Revenge Quotes – Payback Time Or Not?
Looking for the best revenge quotes? These 50 epic revenge quotes will show you what true payback is all about.
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The following quotes about revenge will instantly warm your heart.
These revenge quotes will also make you realise what TRUE payback looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest revenge quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 revenge quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
REVENGE QUOTES
1 – The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius
2 – When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. Jodi Picoult
3 – It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. Isaac Barrow
4 – The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra
5 – If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. Shannon L. Alder
6 – This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Francis Bacon
7- No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. Kin Hubbard
8 – There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much, and pays so little, as revenge. Josh Billings
9 – An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
10 – No matter the reason, revenge causes a cycle that continues and never ends. It poisons the lives of everyone around you, close to you. Seeking revenge becomes all that you desire but comes at a hefty price. Aaron Gromis
REVENGE QUOTES
11 – Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. Walter Weckler
12 – The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. Laura Hillenbrand
13 – Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. Criss Jami
14 – When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence. Patrice Redd Vecchione
15 – Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emil Cioran
16 – Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours. Shannon Alder
17- One of the reasons why revenge is so appealing is that it contemplates some direct encounter between the victim and the offender. That in itself is an improvement over what the law provides.
The legal system keeps victims and offenders apart. Step aside and the law will take over from here. But why should victims abandon the process so readily?
In a civilized society, if you didn’t have to surrender the job of justice to the government, and if instead you could either resolve or avenge the matter privately, would you? It’s difficult to maintain trust in the law knowing what we know about its imperfections. And it’s even more difficult entrusting it with something as important as bringing justice to a personal tragedy.
The law isn’t interested in tailoring, or personalizing, criminal remedies, or responding to our individual grief. Prosecutors don’t ask victims what they would like to see happen to the offender, and then follow up on those wishes. At least with revenge, the victim is empowered by his own willingness to confront and punish on his own terms.
There is no need to delegate the task to an emotionally detached assistant district attorney who shares none of the grief because he’s merely doing his job. Thane Rosenbaum
18 – Getting even throws everything out of balance. Joe Browne
19 – It may be that vengeance is sweet, and that the gods forbade vengeance to men because they reserved for themselves so delicious and intoxicating a drink. But no one should drain the cup to the bottom. The dregs are often filthy-tasting. Winston Churchill
20 – To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille
REVENGE QUOTES
21 – To crave revenge is to fall down before one’s enemy and eat dust at his feet. What worse can we let him do to us? Mary Renault
22 – It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.
Richard Miller
23 – Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. Scott Adams
24 – Do not seek revenge and call it justice.
25 – Life has its grizzly moments that will maul you. Don’t give up and crawl into your grave just yet. We all love the underdog or revenant that takes the world by storm. The best revenge is living well. Go after life with gusto and crush all those obstacles that try to thwart your best efforts. Ron Blake
26 – Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. Austin O’Malley
27- Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural. William Makepeace Thackeray
28 – If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum. Chinese proverb
29 – To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. William H. Walton
30 – Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Max Lucado
REVENGE QUOTES
31 – A woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions. Cyril Connolly
32 – Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Nietzsche
33 – Growing up is the best revenge. Judith Martin
34 – Vengeance is a need, the most intense and profound of all, and…each man must satisfy it, if only in words. If we stifle that need, we expose ourselves to certain disturbances. More than one disorder—perhaps all disorders—derive from a vengeance too long postponed. E. M. Cioran
35 – Revenge is a dish best served cold.
36 – He who turns the other cheek too far gets it in the neck. Heinrich Hertz
37- Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become the worst. Jonas Jonasson
38 – Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses.
39 – Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time. Anna Bayes
40 – Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen. Vladimir Makarov
REVENGE QUOTES
41 – May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be too short to scratch. Keisha Keenleyside
42 – There is nothing so urgent as the desire for revenge, when real or perceived injury has been done to oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing so sweet as the angry pleasure it gives once enacted.
Connoisseurs of revenge might applaud Emile Gaboriau’s remark that “revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen”, but it is rare for revenge to be patient. We hurry to avenge whereas we dawdle to pay other kinds of debts–most notably those of gratitude–and failure to achieve revenge is painful and mortifying in ways that not discharging other debts rarely is.
The impulse to revenge is an impulse to justice, but it is a primitive one, and although its intention is to restore balance, its personal and emotional basis always threatens to make it too harsh and punitive, therefore inviting further revenge. A.C. Grayling
43 – Revenge is private and personal, and so readily gets out of hand. Ernest Lucas
44 – On him that takes revenge, revenge shall be taken, and by a real evil he shall dearly pay for the goods that are but airy and fantastical; it is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. Jeremy Taylor
45 -The worst revenge is the best revenge. Colleen Murphy
46 – You ask forgiveness, I give you sweet revenge
I return this nightmare, I will find you
Sleepless, cloaked in despair, I’m behind you – Metallica
47- Very often when people speak of justice, they are not referring to some abstract concept of law, or an ethereal vision of divine justice, but rather the more earthly idea of responding to a temporal wrong.
They simply want to make sure that he who has caused suffering ends up suffering himself. The only way for the wrongdoer to know the pain that he has caused is by experiencing his own pain.
That’s why the seeking of revenge is an understandable human impulse, precisely because, to the revenge-seeker, the result feels like justice. It speaks to the underlying raw hurt, the primal sense that some life-altering event had taken place, and that the perpetrator must be made to feel the same sense of deprivation and loss. Thane Rosenbaum
48 – To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it’s an absolute duty. Stieg Larsson
49 – Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott
50 – The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius
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Frances Vidakovic
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