He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it.
Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.
The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
Grits ain't groceries and revenge don't pay the bills.
The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The way of revenge lies simply in forcing one’s way into a place and being cut down. There is no shame in this. By thinking you must complete the job you will run out of time.
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.
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
I don't want tea,' said Clary, with muffled force. 'I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.' 'Unfortunately,' said Hodge, 'we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.'
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.