„Let it go, you've got to forget about revenge. Believe me, in this work I've met a lot of guys who feel the way you do. Trust me, for those who follow the path of revenge, it never ends well. You'll only tear yourself apart and even if you succeed with your revenge, what would you have then... nothing, emptiness.“

„… if you rejoice in revenge, torture, and war […] you cannot say you're a follower of the guy who explicitly said "love your enemies" and "do good to those who hate you". The next line isn't, "And if that doesn't work, send a titanium-fanged dog to rip his nuts off". Jesus lays on that hippie stuff pretty thick! He has lines like, "do not repay evil with evil", and "do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you."“

—  Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956

Really! It's in that book you hold up when you scream at gay people.
"New Rules" segment, May 13, 2011; discussing many Christians' support of Osama bin Laden assassinationn and terrorist torture

„You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.“

—  Eddie Vedder musician, songwriter, member of Pearl Jam 1964

This quote was taken from the Synergy's Echoes page ( December, 1991 Houston, Texas, KLOL FM Echoes of Exposure with David Sadoff ).

„Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962

„Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God’s going to have his revenge.“

—  Madonna American singer, songwriter, and actress 1958

Madonna Interview : Q Magazine, Q, 2003-04-01 http://allaboutmadonna.com/madonna-library/madonna-interview-q-magazine-april-2003,

„Retaliation gets you nothing. Revenge is worthless.“

—  Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

„The best revenge is living well without you.“

—  Joyce Carol Oates American author 1938

„Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

Source: CryoBurn

„I want your love and I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance“

—  Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986

Bad Romance, written by Lady Gaga and RedOne
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)

„I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.“

—  John Steinbeck, livre The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

„Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.“

—  Anne Brontë, livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVII : The Neighbour Again; Helen to Walter

„Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end.“

—  Jack Vance, Demon Princes

Source: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 28)

„What are the rules," The cop said.
"There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself.
"Do whatever you want… but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.“

—  Jessica Bird U.S. novelist 1969

Source: Lover Unleashed

„Let me tell you, world,
I—do—not—believe!
If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet,
Count me as number one thousand and one.I don't believe the sky is blue:
I don't believe in thunder's echoes;
I don't believe that dreams are false:
I don't believe that death has no revenge.“

—  Bei Dao contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet 1949

"The Answer" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50088/the-answer-56d22cd8d69d0, p. 33
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

„When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.“

—  Jodi Picoult, livre Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

„They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.“

—  Joanne Harris, livre The Gospel of Loki

Source: The Gospel of Loki

„For those of you praying tonight.. Please pray for peace, not revenge…“

—  Alexander Rybak Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist 1986

„People who live their lives by proverbs waste their time doing lots of stupid things. “Getting even is the best revenge” is my motto.“

—  George Alec Effinger, livre A Fire in the Sun

Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 282).

„If you betray me, can I take a better revenge
Than to love the person you hate?“

—  Pierre Corneille, Tite et Bérénice

Me puis-je mieux venger, si vous me trahissez,
Que d'aimer à vos yeux ce que vous haïssez?
Domitien, act IV, scene iii.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)

„I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.“

—  Albert Pierrepoint English executioner 1905 - 1992

Executioner: Pierrepoint. Harrap 1974. p. 210.