253 Quotes About Vengeance

Returning insult for insult is justice, returning injury for insult is injustice.

I don't speak of vengeance, nor of forgiving; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness

Vengeance is the Lord's...Let it go and let peace reign.

The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.

You tried to eradicate me using your might,But I am going to live on ... out of spite.Will wait in the shadows ever so slight,And ... when the time is right,Ruin your whole life, like a pestering blight.

Dressing up forgiveness to look comfortable does nothing more than save face. Forgiveness is a one-sided gift to the abuser and a self-inflicted punishment for the victim. Standing up for oneself by forcing repayment of debt makes a person whole and sets them free. Payback fully satisfies Newton’s Third Law of Motion.

Religious people forgive only because they trust that sweet revenge is deferred until judgment day. They conjure up satisfying fantasies about watching God settle the score on their behalf. They find comfort in the biblical assurance that they’ll one day watch the agony of their enemies as a reward for denying themselves the satisfaction of taking immediate revenge.

I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.

Destroying someone's life could be remarkably cathartic.