Revenge: Sweet, Bitter, or Both? Why?

Question

You've heard the old sayings, "Revenge is sweet", but what do we really think?

Answer 1

bitter

there is no need for it.

Answer 2

I think revenge is childish. I'd rather just worry about myself and my future and let Karma come back around to the idiot that hurt me.

Answer 3

Unnecessary  

Answer 4

I think it's wrong...tempting, but wrong.  Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

Answer 5

revenge, shall prove it's own executioner....

Answer 6

Revenge is what immature arrogant people do in attempt to "make" someone feel what they feel or felt.  It makes them sadistic hypocrites, and if they are not aware that revenge makes them so, then they are ignorant fools too.  

When we learn something is wrong, but purposely do that wrong with the intent of causing pain to someone who "wronged" us, we are MORE "evil" or wrong than the person who wronged us to begin with.

I suppose if you LIKE being a foolish arrogant immature sadistic hypocrite you would consider revenge to be "sweet", but if you KNOW what revenge is and what it makes you become, it is something you AVOID being part of.    

Answer 7

Actually the quote is "Revenge is sweet, so sayeth the fool".  Now that may change the way people, who never heard the entire quote, think about revenge.  But i doubt it.

I agree with the above quote.  Revenge is not sweet for more than a few moments.  After that, there is the bitterness of knowing you have harmed someone - even if you don't care for them.  I'm going to stop here because I could write several pages on this topic.

Answer 8

Revenge in some ways is sweeter than sugar. Especially if the "revenge" is something you don't even have to do. It can sometimes be Karma coming back and biting someone in the ***, and that is when revenge is the sweetest. They got what was coming to them and all you had to do was sit back and watch. However sometimes, planning your revenge, especially if you have the help of a friend, is what makes it so much fun. But you reap what you sow

Answer 9

Before answering this question I want to say something.

There are many kinds of revenge. And every one has different taste. for example if there is someone hates you and try to damage you it is not necessary to kill him or cause a damage to him till you revenge from him. If you only could go on this life and succeed in it and you could establish a strong and happy family this would be sweet revenge.

Another example: if some one killed our lover. And the judge decide that man must be hanging the killer. This would be bitter revenge that we couldn't get back our lover. So we couldn't say the revenge is sweet or bitter, and every case has its taste.

i wish that you never need to revenge from any one. i hope you a happy life.

Answer 10

Revenge is a release, a release of anger--as such, it is a relieving feeling-you simply let go of something you've kept inside for long.As such, it's as good as relief can get.I cannot think of it as being sweet, bitter, or whatever.

Answer 11

A waste of time. The efforts required chain you to the event and the people for as long as you think about it as anything but a learning experience.

Answer 12

Revenge is nice at times, but sometimes it's as if you can't do enough to get a person back whilst keeping the law, so you might end up just harming yourself. Plus, revenge always equals a response, that's how big family feuds that go on for years start.