Frank Herbert Quotes

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

I have some anger issues.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

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.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

A lot of guys are walking around with a lot simmering beneath the surface, and sometimes it explodes.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?