John Connolly Quotes

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

I was an angry kid.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

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

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

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

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

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.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

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.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.