Dennis Lehane Quotes

Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not like I was abused as a kid or anything. I had a pretty comfortable childhood with parents who took good care of me. But resentment exists, and some of it goes into the music. Some of it goes into physical activity.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

On a good day, I'm a bitter, angry, chip-on-my-shoulder type of guy.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

I hate everybody.

Disaffection stalks around us.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I was an angry kid.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

Almost every week, someone's mad at me.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

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

I was briefly bitter.

I will never stop complaining.

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.