Top 100 Quotes About Vengeance
#1. My vengeance is my guilt
Ovid
#3. To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
Emile M. Cioran
#4. Forgiveness is a far, far stronger power than vengeance will ever be,
Matt Blake
#5. The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.
C. G. Jung
#6. Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
Euripides
#7. I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.'
'Why?'
'Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance.
Alexandre Dumas
#8. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.
Robin Brande
#10. I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There are a lot of new and exciting things on the horizon and the next chapter is going to be amazing.
Wendy Starland
#11. For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
Dennis R. Miller
#12. I will trade my self-pity for hate. My guilt for cunning. My grief for the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#13. The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
Rae Foley
#14. I am awake. I know what you took. I am coming for you. Vengeance is mine.
Robin Burks
#15. My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#16. The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
Victor Hugo
#17. Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.
Elizabeth Carlton
#18. Some crimes," I quote Ryodan stiffly, "are so personal, blood-vengeance belongs only to the one who suffered them.
Karen Marie Moning
#19. I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.
Roger Zelazny
#20. Before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible ...
James Joyce
#21. I'm not in a hurry, the woman said. Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice; even Tich was quelled.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Jane Goldman
#24. Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
Romain Rolland
#25. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
William Styron
#26. Glory, causes, careers, and love mean nothing on an empty stomach. Because of food, I lost my self-respect; because of food, I suffered the humiliation of a lowly cur; and because of food I took up creative writing, with a vengeance.
Mo Yan
#27. The anxiety that has followed me through my life like a bad friend had reappeared with a vengeance and taken a brand-new form ... I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do.
Lena Dunham
#28. What happens to the souls of all the babies whom are never born? Are they lost in some parallel universe? Do they go to heaven? Are they on the other side waiting to get their vengeance?
J. Matthew Nespoli
#29. We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if - and this is the counterintuitive bit - even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.
Peter Watts
#30. Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.
Rene Girard
#31. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Robert Barr
#32. True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
Richard Rohr
#33. Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Walter Scott
#35. The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was taken, you should take it from them.
Deyth Banger
#36. Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.
Gregory Maguire
#37. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#38. Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.
Joe Abercrombie
#39. Glowering like a dwarven god of vengeance.
Markus Heitz
#40. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.
Pierce Brown
#41. Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
Gary D. Schmidt
#42. Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
Emile Gaboriau
#43. televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the slaves had sold their souls to Satan at Bwa Kayiman in return for the power to overthrow their masters.
Mambo Chita Tann
#45. This is exactly why I can't understand the path of vengeance. No matter how much someone has hurt me, I still find no pleasure in seeing them hurt.
Bella Forrest
#46. The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.
Tim LaHaye
#47. A sudden powerful transition to the offensive - the flashing sword of vengeance - is the greatest moment for the defense.
Lawrence Freedman
#48. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.
Charles Darwin
#49. All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.
Mikhail Bakunin
#50. How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
Robert Browning
#51. Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about something gives him courage to endure it; that he has written about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace.
Kerima Polotan
#53. God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand
but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
Mark Twain
#54. I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
#55. Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Dalai Lama
#56. Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.
Walt F.J. Goodridge
#57. Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.
Cassandra Clare
#58. In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder ... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure ... Some killers enjoy the kill ... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
Amanda Quick
#60. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William T. Sherman
#61. Any man who steps between a father and his vengeance asks for death.
George R R Martin
#62. Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.
Robin Hobb
#63. Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again, and the ache for her would return with a vengeance.
John Connolly
#64. Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.
Christopher Titus
#65. System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.
Steve Simmons
#66. Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.
Michelle Paver
#67. Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."
Charles Simmons
#68. I also forgive myself. May the misfortunes of the past no longer weigh on my heart. Instead of pain and resentment, I choose understanding and compassion. Instead of rebellion, I choose the music from my violin. Instead of grief, I choose forgetting. Instead of vengeance, I choose victory.
Paulo Coelho
#69. But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
Aeschylus
#71. Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep.
Pearl S. Buck
#72. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#73. felt the warmth from my chest to my fingertips as she infected my blood. Every part of me vibrated. I had agreed to stay away from her. I'd made a trade. Vengeance in exchange for erasing her from my life.
C.D. Reiss
#74. Hero," he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father's. "Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.
Sulari Gentill
#75. There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
#76. Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.
And never the twain shall meet.
Laini Taylor
#77. But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
Norton Juster
#78. They say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscious. If there's any truth to it, then I now know with certainty that the path I'm on is the right one.
Emily Thorne
#79. It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.
Pope Francis
#80. Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#81. Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance..
Samael Aun Weor
#83. Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.
Ed Stetzer
#84. Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. I was nothing if not determined; at least twice a week I would wear bright, pretty clothes. I was afraid if I didn't, I'd forget who I was. I'd turn into what I felt like: a grungy, weapon-bearing, pissy, resentful vengeance-hungry bitch.
Karen Marie Moning
#86. I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
Eva Gabrielsson
#87. The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
Terry Pratchett
#88. The black man in our midst carried murder in his heart, he wanted vengeance. We carried murder too, we wanted peace.
James Baldwin
#90. Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets.
Joan Jett
#91. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.
Robert D. McFadden
#92. The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
Charles Dickens
#93. O lords,
When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,
The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,
and vengeance for't
Not dropp'd down yet.
William Shakespeare
#95. Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
Martin Mull
#96. I know it's not the '80s anymore, but the '80s are back with a vengeance. Get yourself some neon; whether it's a cute sneaker, a pump or a cross-body bag, add to your wardrobe a pop of neon.
Brad Goreski
#97. Justice is for the victim." Kick. "Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#98. Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
Jonathan Kozol
#99. [W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.
Jon Ronson
#100. If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
Denise Morrison
