#revenge

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ... ↗

— Anne Frank

#old-men #revenge #men

Justice is revenge. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#revenge

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ↗

— Elizabeth Fry

#criminal #lessen #punishment #reform #revenge

-I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy. ↗

— Tom Reiss

#death #god #revenge #death

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then your allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#betrayal #consequences #divorce #hurt #justice

It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in the desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill. ↗

— Brian Turner

#regrets #revenge #anger

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant") ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#haunt #oath #revenge #vengeance #death

We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage. ↗

— Fernando Lachica

#dubaicity #hatred #life #love #lust

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#justice #revenge #dreams