Interesting Quotes About Revenge, Anger and Self-Destruction

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Interesting Quotes About Revenge - But Not Necessarily Inspirational

My interest in putting together a list of quotes about revenge was for one reason and one reason only - as a writer I needed some for an intro to my book. Virtually all writers, regardless of the types of stories they write, deals with the theme of revenge or anger at one point or another in their careers. Such quotes are not always the easiest to find, but those of us who are looking for them appreciate articles like this. I've decided to share a few of my personal favorites with you. I hope you find them useful and they make your characters come alive for the reader.

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Writers Always Need Good Quotes About Revenge

1-HE SCREAMS AND SCREAMS AND POUNDS HIS HEAD
AGAINST THE WALL UNTIL WAILING PHANTOM FIRETRUCKS
PACES ACROSS HIS VISION.

PAIN, PAIN IS ALL HE WANTS.
AND HATE, YES HATE.

WE SHALL NEVER FORGET AND NEVER FORGIVE.

AND NEVER EVER FEAR.
FEAR IS FOR THE ENEMY.
FEAR AND BULLETS. ~J. O'Barr (The Crow)

2-The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ~William Blake

3-Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die! ~Ngo Dinh Diem

4-In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain

5-If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris

6-Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb

7-It's important for people to keep in mind that while anger is a feeling that everybody has, aggression is a choice. ~Carole D. Stovall

8-Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. ~Juvenal

9-Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. ~Agatha Christie

10-An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

11-Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt

12-The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett

13-When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~Thomas Jefferson

14-The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff

15-In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. ~John McCarthy

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Revenge and Anger - Two Very Powerful and Dangerous Emotions

1-Revenge is a dish best served cold. ~Juvenal

2-Too much mercy%u2026 often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. ~Agatha Christie

3-When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry

4-No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan

5-Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. ~Eckhart Tolle

6-Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. ~Amos Bronson Alcott

7-I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me. ~Dr. Seuss

8-A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ~Christopher Morley

9-At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. ~Marshall B. Rosenberg

10-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

11-A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ~Francis Bacon, Sr.

12-Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

13-Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott

14-To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown you hatred. ~Pierre Corneille

15-Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock
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More Quotes About Revenge, Anger and Losing Control

1-Murder's out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh. ~William Shakespeare

2-Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. ~Frank Herbert

3-Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. ~Pat Brown

4-How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer

5-Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ~Ovid

6-Anger is short lived madness. ~Horace

7-Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. ~Emile M. Cioran

8-Revenge is barren of itself; it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ~Friedrich Schiller

9-Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ~Dr. Samuel Johnson

10-Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ~Mark Twain

11-Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ~William Shakespeare

12-Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ~Sakyong Mipham

13-I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. ~Genghis Khan

14-In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

15-Revenge is private and personal, and so readily gets out of hand. ~Ernest Lucas
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Revenge Quotes and Sayings Give You A Peek Into The Dark Side of Human Nature

1-People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

2-Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows. ~Albert Maltz

3-When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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