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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
You must think beyond your vengeance
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.
Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Malice is rare. Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.
Vengeance is a strange human motivation
it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
Revenge is an infection of the spirit.
Vengeance is without foresight.
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
Revenge is fever 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.
Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
If you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
For what can more partake of the mysterious than an antipathy spontaneous and profound such as is evoked in certain exceptional mortals by the mere aspect of some other mortal, however harmless he may be, if not called forth by this very harmlessness itself?
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
Vengeance is a sword pointed inward.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Contempt and anger of his lip! A murderous guilt
Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never. ORGON
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.
The malicious have a dark happiness.
All men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.
Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
Pent up anger brews into hate, which subsequently becomes a juicy revenge.
Arrogance is bitterness' favourite mask.
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance ... the taproot ... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation ... is the hatred of truth ... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.
Everything evil is revenge.
An act of revenge is deeply inhumane, and in any case, this action, is driven from a low affect.
What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. Hatred,
My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.
Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency - which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours - to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?
My vengeance is my guilt
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out.
- Justus
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,
dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
People seek revenge by an accounting that exaggerates their innocence and their adversary's malice; when two sides seek perfect justice, they condemn themselves and their heirs to strife.
Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Contempt is murder committed by the intellect, as hatred is murder committed by the heart.