Quotes about anger
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Those who flame up in anger against you Satan gave them the fire to do so! Those who scratch your wound for it to pain you Satan gave them the stick to do so! Don’t hate the people hate the man who sponsor’s them~ satan!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Pick the axe chop off the anger burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!
Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Angry is ugly anger is ugliness!
C.S. Lewis - The Last Battle
He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
When some things go wrong do not shout!
Mary Roberts Rinehart -
There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there the other is to distract his mind.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau - and Living Compassionately
Feeling anger is necessary it’s what we do with anger that will make or break us.
Ravi Samuel -
Never glorify anger as anger is only destructive! You can never be happy destroying something!
M.F. Moonzajer -
Let them express their anger and hatred listen to them and smile.
Teri Terry - Slated
Use the fear feed the anger.
Shannon L. Alder -
Compassion is not something you have it is something you share.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Never loan your heart to hatred it pays you back with self-destruction. Majority of people living are not aware that anger is an acid that destroys its own container.
Abhysheq Shukla - KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
Thomas S. Monson -
Anger does not solve anything it builds nothing.
Shannon L. Alder -
Feelings are something you have not something you are.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger it destroys at the speed of light!
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness with Christ it brings compassion.
Debasish Mridha -
Avoid anger embrace kindness.
Israelmore Ayivor -
You may not be able to do anything about how you feel but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....
Jonathan Kellerman - Survival of the Fittest
Through the anger came something I recognized the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann
Criss Jami - Healology
The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Pamela Meyer -
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
Joyce Meyer -
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
David Shields -
I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
Victoria Osteen -
Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
Warren Farrell -
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
William Arthur Ward -
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
Sharon E. Rainey - The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings free yourself from that person’s ugliness.
Debasish Mridha -
Be soft enough not to break be kind enough to not get angry.
C.M. Rayne - The Forbidden Land of Andara
Understanding doesn't leave room for anger, hurt or fear.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing.
Sidney Knight - Alex
The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.
Kimberly Belle - The Ones We Trust
A very smart woman once told me that anger can feel like a life buoy, like it's the only thing keeping you afloat, but that in order to heal you have to let go.
Jane Wilson-Howarth - Snowfed Waters
getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.
Beverly Engel - The Right to Innocence
Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of “having” to do something is similar to the anger they felt at “having” to put up with the abuse.
Jacqueline Ripstein - The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...
Ben Mikaelsen - Touching Spirit Bear
He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.
David Esabwa -
Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
S.R. Ford -
Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.
Emma Cline -
The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy.
Masashi Kishimoto -
Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.
Sage Steadman - Not Annie
You know how some people develop addictions to manage their overwhelming emotions? Some people become alcoholics, coke fiends, potheads, pill-poppers, over-eaters, sex addicts or meth-heads. Well, Ann seemed to have a similar addiction to anger, he concluded. Feeling angry served the dual purpose of keeping others at a safe distance while drowning out all other competing and overwhelming emotions.
Vishwas Chavan -
Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity.
Naomi Jackson - The Star Side of Bird Hill
[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.
pavankumar nagaraj -
Whenever my phone blinks fist thought come to mind is u and only u.
Andrea Bouchaud - Twenty in Paris: A Young American Perspective of Studying Abroad in Paris
{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.
Emily Giffin - Baby Proof
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.But my personal favorite defense has always been anger, with its trusty offshoots of self-righteous indignation, bitterness, and resentment.
Beth Bagley -
The language I learned was pretty, full of passivity and silence. I had no proper language for the issues of blood and anger, yet much of what went on when I was a child made me angry. There were no words a nice girl could use to describe anger; her options were to remain silent or to use indiscreet language, the kind that curls in a room like smoke and soon disappears. We girls were taught to speak safely and to bandage our anger with polite, pretty words. We might talk about the anger only in
Daniyal Umar -
Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees.
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of
Alethea Kontis - Enchanted
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!
Lori Ryan - Negotiation Tactics
Do you even feel anything, Chad? Will you for once stop walking around, all in control and f'ing calm? Do you have any idea what you all have done. I lost everything, Chad. Everything, when Kyle died. I lost myself. I had finally begun to build a new life with new friends. With people I thought cared about me. I have started to be just a little bit happy again. Was it too much to ask? Did I ask for too much by just wanting to have a little bit of a life again? Now, it’s all screwed up again and
Tracy Guzeman - The Gravity of Birds
You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re healthy and you’re not, because they’re kind and you’re this angry, frustrated . . . thing.
Sue Parker Hall - Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management
If the heartbeat is a vital sign of physical health, anger is the vital sign of emotional health. Anger protects the self in all relationships. It is rage that is damaging.
Jay Kristoff - Kinslayer
My gift to you, Yukiko-chan.' He nodded. 'Use it to cut away your fear, and leave nothing in its wake. Cherish it. And cherish this truth I speak to you now, if no other before or after: The greatest tempest Shima has even known waits in the wings for you to call its name. Your anger can topple mountains. Crush empires. Change the very shape of the world.'He pressed the blade into her hand, watched her with cool eyes the colour of steel.'Your anger is a gift.
Evinda Lepins - A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger." (HS/el)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Cost of Discipleship
Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.
Stephen Fry - Revenge
Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.
Peter A. Levine - In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately icy cold and feverishly hot. A burning red fury erupts from deep within my belly: How could that stupid kid hit me in a crosswalk? Wasn’t she paying attention? Damn her!A blast of shrill sirens and flashing red lights block out everything.My belly tightens, and my eyes again reach to find the woman’s kind gaze. W
Robert A.F. Thurman - Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier
Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.
Ford Madox Ford - Parade's End
All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.
Sharon Salzberg - Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier
Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.
Mary Alice Monroe - The Summer Girls
Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.
Laura Gentile - Seraphic Addiction
There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the grotty kitchen of disaster. Her face, depleted, cauterised. Her eyes wheezed shame at what she knew would happen to her daughter, again and all over again.
Herman Melville -
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.
Nicolette Day - No Strings Attached
The next three hours went by in a mind-numbing haze. By the time the cab pulled up to the airport terminal, she was pissed. Not at him though. She wanted to be-she'd fallen back in love with him, and he couldn't even stick around to have a waffle and say good-bye?-but she couldn't.
Barry Lyga - Game
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
Samantha Leahy -
Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.
Kyra Gregory - Butterfly
Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?
Chögyam Trungpa -
When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to our surprise we find that we are also open to what the other person is feeling. Open heart is open heart.
Alice Jamieson - One Tortured Mind
Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager?I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years now made sense. It was like the answer to a terrible secret. The thing is, it wasn’t me in my bed, it was Shirley who lay the wondering if that man was going to come to her room, pull back the cover and push his penis into her waiting mouth it was Shirley. I remembered watching her, a skinny little thing with no breasts and a dark resentful expression. She was angry. She didn’t want
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
Rachel Caine - Bite Club
You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
Juliet Marillier - Raven Flight
I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.
Mercy Cortez - Never Ever After: Angel
He said 'sorry,' They all fucking say sorry...Sorry is a word, it fixes nothing; it just makes the perpetrator feel a little less like the arsehole he is.
Jessica Verdi - My Life After Now
I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.
Lauren Oliver - Pandemonium
Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me.
Ian Fleming - Moonraker
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
Richelle Mead - Gameboard of the Gods
You can crawl back to whatever hole you live in and fuck your landlord for rent.
Nadezhda Mandelstam -
When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blind
Paul Krassner -
If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one.But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Anger is action without thoughts.
Israelmore Ayivor -
Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Sonia Sotomayor Goodreads is over capacity. You can never have too many books but Goodreads can some -
I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190
Nadair Desmar -
Anger is a revenge that can never be controlled.
Steve Alten - The Loch
... Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?
Alexander McCall Smith - Chocolate
It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.
Shannon L. Alder -
God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.
Thomas Aquinas -
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent,” she said.
Beverly Engel - The Right to Innocence
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Andy Stanley - Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
Maya Banks - Hidden Away
I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.
Renata Adler - Speedboat
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Amy Harmon - A Different Blue
Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.