Cormac McCarthy Quotes

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

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

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

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

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

There are no justified resentments.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

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]