Stephen King Quotes

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

I've got a powerful left hook and a lot of intensity. The intensity comes from the anger within.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

Don't get even, get mad.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

I'm just a quiet guy who loved to fight.

My hatred gives me strength.

Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him." He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested

Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.