Vindictiveness Quotes

“How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do that any more. Bad, bad stuff. I did as a young person, but it just wore me out. Oh, it really did! How many times can you wake up in the middle of the night gnashing your teeth? It’s so boring. Give it up!”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

“Those who rejoice at the emergency moments of others, at the pain, suffering, loss, grief, despair, death, sickness and anxiety of others carry: an impaired conscience, a vindictive heart and an evil soul.
~ Angelica Hopes, Life Unfolds”
― Angelica Hopes

“Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

“In politics, the players jockey for power; in academia, they play for vanity, a far more compelling instinct that could conjure far more vindictive punishment.”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“Beware who you hurt and anger. Some are neither harmless nor forgiving. The wise would do well to avoid unnecessary misfortune.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I suppose this anger and manipulation was my pseudo-conscious method of giving the system, and all it entailed, the big fat birdie finger. What I failed to realize was that my inward disposition of fuming vindictiveness and self-justification only caused me to rob myself. I was giving myself the middle finger, not them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch.”
― Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep