William T. Vollmann Quotes

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.

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

The only person you resent is yourself.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with me.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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 hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I have some anger issues.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

I was an angry kid.

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

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

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

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.