R Quotes
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“Revenge begets revenge; the anger is unquenchable. We become the monsters we are trying to punish. Justice, however, brings closure, and that is what I want. It can only be achieved by remaining sober-minded and rational. And, in the end, it is not my place to punish the prince. It is the king’s, and only the king’s. All I can do is find enough evidence to make the truth undeniable.”
Source: The Red Palace
“Revenge can feel so good in the moment, but the price is often long-term pain. To be wise is to always be alert to the perils of chasing instant blissful feelings that come from getting even with someone.”
“Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.”
“Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.”
“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”
Source: Comstock Lode
“Revenge doesn't stop.”
“Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Revenge errantly assumes that people can hurt others at no cost to themselves.”
“Revenge fantasies can be beneficial in trauma recovery. They bring significant catharsis and reestablish a sense of empowerment after one has been made to feel powerless.”
Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
“Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.”
“Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.”
“Revenge for Frankie”
“Revenge gets you nowhere and achieves nothing. It only satisfies the flesh. Let it go.”
Source: The Healing Méndez
“Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.”
“Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?”
Source: She Is a Haunting
“Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated to avenge injuries to honour, property, women, and kin. If life was taken, revenge reached its peak, often leading to a vicious circle of death and counter-death.”
Source: War in Human Civilization
“Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.”
“Revenge increases our pain whenever it has failed to end, or at least decrease, our pain.”
“Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.”
Source: Heir of Novron
“Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Revenge is a color, a color that never fades. A beautiful color. It is the color of the sky at dawn when lovers are hauled out of their beds and garroted in the middle of the street; the color of the ancient sea when Noah’s Ark has been breached below the water line; the color of Jacob’s Ladder as it collapses while Jacob has climbed only half-way to heaven. But it is more than that, much more. It contains the pigment that colors the eyes of the lovers that betray you.”
Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery
“Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.”
“Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.”
“Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.”
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
“Revenge is a dish best served in something microwaveable”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.”
“Revenge is a dish best served with old friends.”
Source: Head Lion
“Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.”
“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
“Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”
“Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.”
Source: The Vestige
“Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.”
Source: File
“Revenge is a meal best served cold.”
“Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.”
“Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.”
“Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.”
“Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.”
“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Source: A Dictionary of the English Language
“Revenge is an Evil Mistress”
Source: Even - Adelphi: Silent Killer Revenge
“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
“Revenge is an inhuman word.”
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
“Revenge is counter-productive. Let them drown in the pool of their bad Karma. Going into their pool just to fight them satisfies your ego but harms your soul.”
“Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think