Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

I would never do anything just for spite.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

Malice hath a strong memory.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

I am not a man who wants revenge.