Jack Kerouac Quotes

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Patience is passion tamed.

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

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

I need to control my mouth.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.