Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

Quotes About Love: Happy Love Day Motherfuckers


"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

― Dr. Seuss

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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

― Elbert Hubbard

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

― Martin Luther King Jr.

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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

― André Gide

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.” 

― Bob Marley

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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

― Robert A. Heinlei

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"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."

― Marilyn Monroe

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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

― Anaïs Nin

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"The heart was made to be broken."

― Oscar Wilde

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"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

― Oscar Wilde

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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

― Joan Crawford

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"And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."

― Paul McCartney

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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

― Oscar Wilde

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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

― James Baldwin

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"Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it."

― Candace Bushnell

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"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call."

― Greg Behrendt

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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

― Robert Frost

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"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"

― Scott Adams

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"I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

― Maya Angelou

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"The more one judges, the less one loves."

― Honoré de Balzac

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"If you love and get hurt, love more.If you love more and hurt more, love even more.If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more..."

― William Shakespeare

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Quotes Of The Day: Kurt Vonnegut


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. 

He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut "the counterculture's novelist." {more}




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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

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"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

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"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."

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"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

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"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God."

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"The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth."

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"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

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"“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

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"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

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"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."

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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."

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"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."

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"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."

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"If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

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"Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide."

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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.""

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“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Quotes Of The Day: William Blake


William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham), he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself". {more}

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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
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"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."

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"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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"To generalize is to be an idiot."

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"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

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"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."

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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

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"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."

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"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

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"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."

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"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

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Inspiring Quotes By George Orwell


Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism.

Commonly ranked as one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century and as one of the most important chroniclers of English culture of his generation, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His book Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, is widely acclaimed, as are his numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". {more}

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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

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"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."

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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

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"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

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"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

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"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

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"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

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"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."

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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Wisdom Of Native Americans


Yeah, it's me again. You mad? Get used to it.

I am sick and tired of people quoting fucking idiots and over worshiped CEOs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Tiger Woods or any other moron. You know what? Their quotes are pure shit. Pure fatherfuckiing shit made specifically for brain dead idiots who get tired from eating too much and then sit on the couch and scratch their balls. Make space for some real knowledge - the wisdom of the native Americans.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Remembering Bruce Lee - 25 Rare Pictures & Quotes


Today is the birthday of the famous martial artists and movie star Bruce Lee. On that occasion Irongangsta presents 27 rare pictures of him. 

Some of the pictures are shots from Lee's movies and are showing the violent, wild, passionate and aggressive side of Bruce Lee while the rest are family photos revealing to some extend the personal life of the actor. Enjoy.



“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”


― Bruce Lee

"Real living is living for others."

Bruce Lee 
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

Bruce Lee
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

Bruce Lee
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

Bruce Lee 
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

Bruce Lee
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Bruce Lee 
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

Bruce Lee
"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."

Bruce Lee 
"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

Bruce Lee
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

Bruce Lee 
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

Bruce Lee 
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

Bruce Lee 
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee 
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Bruce Lee 
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Bruce Lee
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. The danger of training with the heavy bag is that it doesn't react to one’s attack and sometimes there is a tendency to thoughtlessness. One will punch the bag carelessly, and would be vulnerable in a real situation if this became a habit.

Bruce Lee

Question: What are your thoughts when facing an opponent? 
Bruce: There is no opponent. 
Question: Why is that? 
Bruce: Because the word ''l'' does not exist. A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist). Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

Bruce Lee
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

Bruce Lee
“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

Bruce Lee
“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”

Bruce Lee
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

Bruce Lee
"If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.”

Bruce Lee
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

Bruce Lee
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Quotes on Revenge


“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

- Mahatma Gandhi


“Revenge proves its own executioner.”


- John Ford,The Broken Heart


“I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”


- George R.R. Martin,A Clash of Kings

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”


- Marcus Aurelius,Meditations


“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”


- Anne Lamott


“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”


- Mary Higgins Clark


“Beware the fury of a patient man.”


- John Dryden


“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.”


- Niccolò Machiavelli


“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”


- Charles Dickens,A Tale of Two Cities


“Two wrongs dont make it right but....it makes it even!!-”


- Alex Biggs


“When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.“


- Patrice Redd Vecchione, Revenge and Forgiveness


“If I were going to set out to oppress other people, I would surely prefer to select for my victims persons whose first response is forgiveness rather than persons whose first response is revenge.“


- Jeffrie G. Murphy,Getting Even


“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.“


- Pierre Corneille, Rodogune


“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.“


- Francis Bacon, Essays


“In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.“


- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


“Murder’s out of tune,And sweet revenge grows harsh.“


- William Shakespeare, Othello


“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.“

- Francis Bacon, Essays

“Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.“


- Euripides, Ion


“Universal though the instinct for revenge may be, it is much stronger in some of us than others. And those who have it in abundance apparently pay something of a price.“


- Ellis Cose, Bone to Pick


“Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.“


- John Milton, Paradise Lost


“I'm not real big on repentence...I like revenge better.“


- Laurell K. Hamilton, The Lunatic Cafe


“When you have the power to screw people over and you don't--well, that's when you get to show who you really are.“


- Joseph Finder, Paranoia


“To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.“


- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss


“Vengeance is just:
Justly we rid the earth of human fiends
Who carry hell for pattern in their souls.
But in high vengeance there is noble scorn:
It tortures not the torturer, nor gives
Iniquitous payment for iniquity.
The great avenging angel does not crawl
To kill the serpent with a mimic fang;
He stands erect, with sword of keenest edge
That slays like lightning.“


- George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy


“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.“
- Francis Bacon, Essays


“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.“


- Austin O'malley, Keystones of Thought


“When violence hurries on too fast, and caution does not keep pace with revenge, people generally do themselves more harm than the enemy.“


- Wellins Calcott, Thoughts Moral and Divine


“Revenge is but a small circle.“


- Edward Counsel, Maxims


“Revenge is a fervor in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.“

- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon


“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.“
- Kenkesey, Sometimes a Great Notion


“By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.“


- William Hazlitt, Characteristics


“Revenge, like some poisonous plant, replete with baneful juices, rankles in the breast, and meditates mischief to its neighbour.“


- Wellins Calcott, Thoughts Moral and Divine


“Revenge holds another irony. It so often proves unnecessary. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," wrote an ancient Hebrew sage. No mere pious platitude. An axiom of human psychology that is too little understood. Substitute "Nature" for "the Lord," if you desire. Those given to harming others bear within themselves the seeds of their own destruction. When a man injures you, it's often better to let Nature take her course. That wise old lady is pretty sure to do a juster and more artistic job of punishment than you.“


- Garret Smith, Living Sparks of Life


“The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.“


- Jane Porter, attributed, Lifelines


“Revenge is what we call that sturdy horse, Self-Defense, when it runs amuck. Curb it and train it to stick to the road, and it will carry you far.“


- Garret Smith, Living Sparks of Life


“Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble; but Christ's religion, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.“


- Bulwer Lytton, My Novel or Varieties in English Life


“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.“


- Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved


“He that has revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the greater man.“


- Wellins Calcott, Thoughts Moral and Divine


“The best revenge is massive success.“


- Frank Sinatra


“Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.“


- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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