Jonathan Maberry Quotes

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

Hatred makes me energetic, but confused.