Revenge, wanting to retaliate someone for something bad they have done to us, is something we have all wanted to do. It is a human thing, although many negative human behaviors lead to undesirable results.
As you can see in the following quotes, which are said by wise people of all time, when you come you often hurt yourself. You can do it guided by your emotions and that is why it is important to know how to control them, so as not to do something that you may later feel regret about. However, others did not have the same ideas and saw revenge as something natural.
So what can you do in cases where you feel that urge toward revenge? Wait, calm your mind and think if you really want to do it and what will be its consequences.
With these phrases about revenge you will learn the wisdom of great historical figures, what they learned throughout their lives about revenge and related matters.
-Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.-Confucius.
-Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-An eye for an eye will only make the whole world go blind.-Mahatma Gandhi.
-The best revenge is to be different from the one who did the damage.-Marco Aurelio.
-Revenge tears the heart and torments the conscience.-Arthur Schopenhauer.
-Revenge is a confession about one's own pain.-Latin proverb.
-Just revenge requires no punishment.-Pierre Corneille.
-The best revenge is a great success.-Frank Sinatra.
-Revenge is not a noble feeling, but it is human.-Rudy Giuliani.
-If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his revenge need not be feared.-Nicholas Machiavelli.
-Forgetfulness is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.-Jorge Luis Borges.
-Letting go of resentment, anger, violence and revenge are necessary conditions to live happily.-Pope Francis.
-An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.-Kurt Vonnegut.
-Revenge is a delicious fruit, which must ripen so that we can fully enjoy it.-Émile Gaboriau.
-Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.-Wayne Gerard Trotman.
-Revenge is one of the great motivators of life.-K.S. Brooks.
-Nothing is more expensive, nothing is more sterile than revenge.-Winston Churchill.
-The cries of justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.-Wayne Gerard Trotman.
-Revenge has no foresight.-Napoleon Bonaparte.
-Whoever has revenge in his power and does not use it, is the greatest person. -Wllins Calcott.
-If I did not feed anything else, I would feed my revenge.-William Shakespeare.
-Not forgiving is like ingesting rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.-Anne Lamott.
-On numerous occasions it is said that revenge is sweet, but for a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.-Isaac Barrow.
-Treat everyone fairly or you will seek revenge.-Christopher Paolini
-Revenge is normally like biting a dog, just because the dog bit you.-Austin O'Malley.
-An eye for an eye, the essence of all revenge.-John Katzenbach.
-Those who indulge in revenge and take justice into their own hands rarely know where the limit is.-Richelle Mead.
-In short, the best revenge is to live an incredible life.-Ramón Bautista.
Revenge has a huge appetite, it is always thirsty for blood and it never gets full.-Richelle E. Goodrich.
-Happiness is the best revenge of all. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good laugh.-Chuck Palahniuk.
Life can only be savored if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods.-David Gemmell.
-It is useless to satisfy vengeance with vengeance; It won't cure anything.-J. R. R. Tolkien.
-The weak people take revenge, the strong forgive, the intelligent ignore.-Albert Einstein.
-A man who thinks of revenge keeps his wounds open, which otherwise would have healed and would be better.-Francis Bacon.
-Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a small and narrow mind.-Juvenal.
-When taking revenge, a man is equal to his enemy, but when passing over her, he is superior.-Francis Bacon.
-It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-You can't get ahead while taking it out.-Dick Armey.
-While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit.-François de Malherbe.
-You can have justice or you can have revenge. But not both.-Devin Grayson.
-The best revenge is to live and test yourself.-Eddie Vedder.
-Living well is the best revenge.-George Herbert.
-Stronger than the love of a lover is the hatred of a lover.-Euripides.
-Although at first revenge is sweet, it turns bitter after a long time.-John Milton.
-Revenge is a virus that eats all the vital elements of the mind and intoxicates every spiritual being.-James Alen.
-To take revenge without enthusiasm is to seek disaster; One of two, either you condemn yourself or you crown your hatred.-Pierre Corneille.
-Seeking greatness is the only just revenge.-Criss Jami.
-Revenge is sweet and does not make you fat.-Alfred Hitchcock.
-The difference between punishment and revenge is anger.-Penelope Parker.
Revenge is sweet. Revenge taken when the avenger is not sure who the avenger is, is even sweeter.-Gary D. Schmidt.
-If they prick us, won't we bleed? If they tickle us, don't we laugh? If they poison us, don't we die? And if they insult us, should we not take revenge? -William Shakespeare.
-No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.-Zayn Malik.
-It is not violence that uproots hatred, nor revenge that washes injury.-Charlotte Brontë.
A society built on a basis of revenge is doomed to destroy itself.-Richelle E. Goodrich.
-Revenge is like a rolling stone, that when a man has moved it to the top of a hill, it will come back on him with greater violence.-Jeremy Taylor.
-A funny thing about revenge is that it could turn a nun into a murderer.-Kevis Hendrickson.
-Man must develop for all human conflicts a method that rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of that method is love. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Writing well is the best revenge.-Dorothy Parker.
-Revenge is a dish that is served cold.-Proverb.
Man does not master revenge; Revenge breaks man.-Chris Galford.
-Revenge is not always sweet, once consummated we feel inferior to its victim.-Emile M. Cioran.
-Only revenge does not require punishment.-Pierre Corneille.
-A belated revenge shares the guilt of the tyrant.-Edward young.
-Hate is the coward's revenge for being bullied.-George Bernard Shaw.
-The problem with revenge is that, although it can cause pain in the other party, it does not manage to heal the wounds that one feels.-Peter May.
-Men are more likely to return a wrong than a favor, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.-Robert Greene.
-Get rid of the terrible baggage of resentment, resentment and revenge. They are suitcases that make our path too arduous.-Camilo Cruz.
-Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep your head aligned and work hard to achieve it.-Ed Sheeran.
-The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.-Albert Camus.
-Happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.-Madonna Ciccone.
-In revenge and in love, the woman is more cruel than the man.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-There is no revenge as complete as forgiveness.-Josh Billings.
-Revenge is the goal of those who feel defeated in some way. It is always much more interesting to think about victory than revenge.-Anne Rice.
-When someone steals your partner, there is no better revenge than letting him keep her.-Sacha Guitry.
-Men must be treated with generosity or destroyed, because they take revenge for small injuries, for the most serious they cannot.-Nicholas Machiavelli.
-It is essential that justice be done, and it is also vitally important that justice is not confused with revenge, because the two are totally different.-Óscar Arias.
-Revenge is sweeter than life itself.-Juvenal.
-Revenge is an inhuman word.-Seneca, the Younger.
-Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.-Edward Gibbon.
-Indulgence to vengeance tends to make men more savage and cruel.-Henry Home, Lord Kames.
-Revenge is never good; kills the soul and poisons it.-Roberto Gómez Bolaños.
-If you focus on revenge, wounds that otherwise would have healed are kept fresh.-Adeline Yen Mah.
-The desire for revenge is a human feeling.-Ángeles Goyanes.
-Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge you deserve.-Jessica Brody.
-There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.-Banksy.
-Revenge may be bad, but it is natural.-William Makepeace Thackeray.
-The best revenge, like the best sex, is done slowly and with open eyes.-Gregory David Roberts.
-Men often mistake murder and revenge for justice. They rarely have the desire for justice.-Robert Jordan.
-Revenge proves its own executioner.-John Ford.
-An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot. -Bible, Exodus.
-While seeking revenge, dig two graves, one of them is for you.-Douglas Horton.
-No matter the reason, revenge causes a continuous cycle that never ends.-Aaron Gromis.
-Taking revenge on yourself or your loved ones is not only a right, but it is an absolute duty.-Stieg Larsson.
-Revenge and retribution take a long time; That is the main rule.-Charles Dickens.
-When everything you love and know is taken from you so harshly, all you can imagine is anger, hatred and even revenge, and no one can save you from it.-Masashi Kishimoto.
-To get angry is to avenge the mistakes of others on ourselves.-Alexander Pope.
-Revenge is just because we rid the land of human demons.-George Eliot.
-The dead do not want revenge but the happiness of those who are still alive. Getting your little hands dirty would never make anyone happy. -Kenshin you Eiji.
-A bad action is not redeemed with a bad action in retaliation.-Coretta Scott King.
-Those who kill snakes are killed by snakes.-Rudyard Kipling.
-Deep revenge is the daughter of deep silence.-Vittorio Alfieri.
-Without forgiveness there is no future.-Desmond Tutu.
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