#revenge

Revenge is never pretty and often leaves you empty. --Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews ↗

— C.J. Ellisson

#death

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#tragedy #death

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#grudge #revenge #death

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#revenge

Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons! ↗

— Marcel Béalu

#hilarious #revenge #silly #experience

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#faith #god #inspirational #revenge #faith

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#revenge #forgiveness

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#funny #revenge #werewolf #funny

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#camus #communism #czechoslovakia #david-szmulevski #east-germany

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art? ↗

— Mark Lawrence

#revenge #science #art