History Quotes / VengeanceFeelsEmpty

--> '''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Thomas]]''' talking down [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Shining Armor]] from [[spoiler: murdering Chrysalis]], ''FanFic/WaywardCourier''

->'''[[KnightInSourArmor Sandor "The Hound" Clegane]]''' to '''Arya Stark''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

->'''Lady Sally''': Vengeance is counterproductive, always. Not to mention the fact it gets your soul all sticky.
-->--''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon''

'''Splinter: After all this time, I have learned revenge only leads to more pain.

->''"Revenge always leads to disappointment, so I can't really say I recommend it"''

->"Is very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."

-->-- '''The Pharaoh''', ''Anime/YuGiOh''

->'''Bruce Wayne''': Then it will happen this way: You make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows. So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won't know why.

-->'''Kakashi Hatake''': Let it go. You've got to forget about revenge.
-->'''Sasuke Uchiha''': What?
-->'''Kakashi Hatake''': 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 and you get your revenge, what will you have then? Nothing. Emptiness.

-->'''Natsuki''': I have to wonder- was this the moment I've been hoping and working toward all those years? Everyone involved with my mother's death is now dead. They deserved it for serving the Obsidian Lord, even if I did not have a more personal grudge against them. But my mother is still dead, and this triumph seems hollow, and I'm not sure if I got what I wanted in the end.
-->'''Nao''': [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion do]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion you want, Natsuki]]?
-->'''Natsuki''': I actually don't know the answer to that question myself," Natsuki said. "Was it bringing justice to my mother's killers as the court system could not? I suppose that happened, although they didn't die because of what they did to my mother. Was it to get the personal satisfaction of ending their lives? I'll never know whether that would be enough for me, although I suspect it would not. Was it to prevent anything like this from ever happening again? I doubt I could send a message by eliminating a secret organization, and I've never been the kind of hero to save the world.
-->'''Nao''': Neither am I.
-->'''Natsuki''': So what about you, Nao?
-->'''Nao''': Our quests may have the same motive in mind, but they're different in how we carry them out. Yours is a long journey with a disappointing ending, like playing a 30-hour role-playing game only to find that someone killed the final boss for you.
-->'''Natsuki''': Are you saying it's about the journey rather than the destination?
-->'''Nao''': ''Hell'' no. My quest is like one of those arcade games with the same level over and over, but without any challenge or risk of defeat. It was fun for a while but I eventually realized I was never getting anywhere. I think both of us sought our revenge to gain inner peace as a substitution for having our parents back, which is something we can never have. Unfortunately for us, this method won't soothe our pain.

->''Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.''

-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell'''

-->-- '''George Orwell'''

-->-- '''The Pharaoh''', ''YuGiOh''