Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Let the Gods avenge themselves.

I hope that the SOB who is responsible for this will rot in Hell!

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

God'll send the bill to you.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.

When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.