Dorothy Thompson Quotes

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

Sometimes I feel evil!

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

Worry divides the mind.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.