John Marston Quotes

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

I can forgive, I just can't forget.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.

I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.