C. S. Lewis Quotes

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

Protect me from what I want.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

I don't want to show my emotions in public.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.