Dean Koontz Quotes

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Don't get even, get mad.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When anger comes, there is no way of satisfying its demands

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

I have a lot of hostility.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.