Jorge > Jorge's Quotes

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Lonesome Dove Series

“Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.”
― George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
― Tennessee Williams

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
― Heinrich Heine

“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“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

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.”
― William Shakespeare

“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”
― Muhammad Ali, The greatest: My own story

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, Medea

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.”
― Jenny Han, Fire with Fire

“I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content.

-Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) ”
― Naomi Novik, Black Powder War

“There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.”
― Emilie Autumn

“I want to write a song about retaliation called, "Oh Yeah, and I Faked Every Orgasm...While You Were Out of Town.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
― scott adams

“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
― Victor Hugo

“The justice I have received, I shall give back.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell

“Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy”
― Don Darkes, 6692 Pisces the Sailfish

“Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.”
― Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever

“It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.

("The Vengeance Of The Dead")”
― Robert Barr, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others