Revenge is a common theme in human emotions and experiences. It refers to the act of seeking retribution or inflicting harm on someone who has caused harm to oneself. Quotes about revenge often reflect a desire for justice or the satisfaction derived from seeing someone else suffer the consequences of their actions. These quotes can serve as a reminder of the powerful emotions associated with revenge and the potential consequences that can arise from seeking it.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. — Samuel Johnson
Revenge... 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
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, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. — Juvenal
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. — Tupac Shakur
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. — Juvenal
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. — Mary Browne
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let’s say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma. — Diane Von Furstenberg
A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma. — Keshia Chante
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway — Ajahn Brahm
I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma. — Susane Colasanti
Sweet Revenge Quotes
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was. — Phil Jackson
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. — Isaac Barrow
Weak people revenge, strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. — John Milton
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. — Walter Scott
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. — Tracey Emin
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! — Walter Scott
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. — Homer
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Evil Revenge Quotes
It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good. — Sayings
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself — James Nayler
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. — Aristotle
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge . — John Milton
... and still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward. — Virginia C. Andrews
I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off! — Michelle Yeoh
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else. — Laura Schlessinger
In politics evils should be remedied not revenged. — Napoleon III
Do Revenge Quotes
Shortsighted things that people sometimes do for their individual self-interest don’t tend to work out well in the long run. — Edward O. Thorp
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? — William Shakespeare
If people don’t hate you, you’re probably not doing very big things. — Jay-Z
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi
Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness. — Vidkun Quisling
If you sue somebody it takes two years, three years, and your anger just gets lost in between. And even if you win or lose the trial, it takes such a long time. If you want to really take a personal revenge, you'd better do it by yourself and at the right time. — Gaspar Noe
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge. — Albert Pierrepoint
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. — Meir Kahane
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent. — Vincent Van Gogh
No Revenge Quotes
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. — Amy Adams
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. — Josh Billings
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. — Sacha Guitry
Told my brothers to take my breath if I turn to a snitch But I’m 21 4L, ain’t no way I’ma switch. — 21 Savage
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. — Muhammad Ali
If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN. — Wiz Khalifa
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. — Meir Kahane
When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him. — Baltasar Gracian
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Revenge Quotes
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. — Marianne Williamson
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. — Sister Souljah
You can show somebody all the love in the world but that don’t mean they gonna show it back. — 21 Savage
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. — Marianne Williamson
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge. — Robert Greene
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. — Kerrelyn Sparks
Revenge Is Sweet Quotes
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. — Emile M. Cioran
Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold. — Stephen Fry
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing. — Mason Cooley
There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet. — Robert Palmer
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. — Euripides
If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. — Angela Elwell Hunt
Sweet is revenge-especially to women. — Lord Byron
Hamlet Revenge Quotes
Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. — William Shakespeare
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. — Frederick Lenz
A man can smile and smile and be a villain. — Aldous Huxley
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below — Claudius
From this time forth
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! — William Shakespeare
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. — William Shakespeare
Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. — William Shakespeare
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare
Vengeful Quotes
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — Phillips Brooks
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more. — Douglas Coupland
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
If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors. — Tim Minchin
Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. — David Knopfler
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism. — George Elliott Clarke
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Retaliation Quotes
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. — Jeff Cooper
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. — Roberto Assagioli
If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread. — Filipino Proverbs
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. — Edward James Olmos
Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly. — Lewis Howes
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. — Leopoldo Lopez
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak. — Booker T. Washington
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans. — Alexander The Great
Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more. — Ahmed Kathrada
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. — William Lloyd Garrison
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. — Eddie Vedder
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure — Tacitus
They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges. — Dr. Dre
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. — Hosea Ballou
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. — Samuel Gompers
When the Soviet Union broke apart, it split into 15 countries. Geography had its revenge on the Soviets, and a more logical picture reappeared on the map. — Tim Marshall
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. — John Adams
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. — Banksy
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. — Marya Mannes
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path. — Pema Chodron
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information. — Edward R. Murrow
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume
Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve. — Ed Sheeran
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge. — Maajid Nawaz
In Conclusion
Quotes about revenge often emphasize the negative aspects of this desire, warning against the destructive nature of seeking vengeance. They highlight the idea that revenge can lead to a never-ending cycle of violence and harm. Such quotes encourage individuals to focus on forgiveness, understanding, and finding peace instead of seeking revenge. They remind us that revenge may not bring the satisfaction or resolution we desire and that it is often better to let go of our negative feelings and move on.
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