Reading a new book written and published by a friend, she had a quote in the story she said everyone knew: ‘Revenge is like taking rat poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die’.
Went on-line to see if I could find an attribution. Could not. But read a lot of interesting quotes on revenge. The one that came the closest to her quote was: ‘not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die’.
But these caught my eye:
Revenge is possible, only if you spare the enemy – Raheel Farooq
“I want revenge, but I don’t want to screw up my karma.”
― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza