Stephen King Quotes

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? Are you afraid of my possibly insane dark side coming out?" "No, I'm afraid of your normal Rose Hathaway side coming out, the one that isn't afraid to jump in without thinking when she believes something is right." I gave him a dry look. "Is there are a difference?" "Yes. The second one scares me.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.