3,090 Quotes About Anger

Anger is created from an unresolved past. Solve your past and move beyond this anger. So you can live your best life.

He who is not noisy when angry is already at peace.

Gentleness breeds sanity, anger breeds insanity.

Anger was such an easy emotion to feel, the refuge of someone who didn’t want to work too hard. Because his life in the summer of 2011 had been unfulfilling and going nowhere and he was so angry about it. Angry at his mother for leaving, angry at Bethany for not loving him, angry at his students for being uneducatable. He’d settled into the anger because the anger was so much easier than the work required to escape it.

Anger is not a sustainable emotion in and of itself. It has to be transformed into a deep love for the possibility of who we can be.

I thought missing my Dad would be the hardest thing I’d ever do; but the worst thing, the hardest thing, had turned out to be angry with someone you couldn’t fight it out with.

I'm still furious with God over what happened to Lizzy. But I realized being furious with Him is not the same thing as wanting Him out of my life.

Feuds are weeds... Once it’s grown roots, it’s harder to dig up; and it’s far easier to spread.

We may try to numb anger, but when we do we numb joy and pleasure on the world too. This numbing does not mean we stop having the feelings, it just stops us from being aware that we are having them. Those feelings are still churning away, tensing our bodies, writing unconscious scripts for us, storing up stuff to unload on to the world, on to our kids, but preferably on to our therapists. This numbness also inhibits the ability to have good relationships as well.