Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we’re connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches...

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, “Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a...

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

A man of your valor deserves not another breath.

Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge...

But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart...

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead, he saw an enemy coming for him like a revenant rising from a...

Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.

LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you need to. Feel it…It’s not going to make a neat little hole. First – it’ll obliterate...

I wanted it more than enough. I wanted it with every fiber of my being, and I had the power to make it happen – to make it so I was the one Drew wanted,...

change” always go into disagreement when it is suggested. The worst part of the matter that sends their neck veins bulging in vengeance is when that change for progress was meant and would need to...

Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

If she had done the floor routine she’d done last week she would have gotten a 9.8, but we needed her to do this routine when we get to postseason. She had a little bit...

Vengeance is the outer shell of a blade which carries the core named Justice. Justice is the wind that decides Vengeance’s course.

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it’s honey. In fact, I may not...

Everyone might think Lizzie’s an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

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

The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.

Yes,” said Locke.”Yes, Master Ibelius. I’m going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who’s ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur – Autant que la m choire)

Do not take it upon yourselves to avenge yourselves on one another or to speak curses and maledictions. The person that does you harm or injury is interfering with the office of God and sinning...

A man once told me that there are infinite places love will take you, but revenge is the business of hate, and there is only one place hate will take you—the end. The end of...

I belong to no one. On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will...

Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion...

… Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over...

We might not win today” But Time is our best friend, HE will catch up with you and drag you down… Vengeance will be ours

I don’t mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I’m sharing my name with you. I’m putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don’t listen to anyone but me. You are to be...

How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather...

As he returned to the bed, he could see Vallant eyeing him warily, but he ignored this, sat on the opposite end and braced the pad on his knee. You think after all that, I...

She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin’s voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?The powder...

And I may not omit here a special work of God’s providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower], one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made...