#vengeance

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

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

#law #vengeance #death

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#forgiveness #grudge #grudges #holding-grudges #moving-on

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#vengeance #humor

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#computer-hackers #computers #funny #geek #geek-humor

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators. ↗

— K.S. Brooks

#special-agent-kathrin-night #vengeance #life

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#hell #life #madness #repression #vengeance

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#am #catholic #feminist #husband #i

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled." - from "The Tarishe Curse ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#retaliation #retribution #revenge #richelle #richelle-goodrich