3,090 Quotes About Anger

If people could kill without going to jail and, perhaps, without getting their own hands dirty, they often would. Human nature is like that.

The sooner temper shows up in a relationship, the worse the implications. Most people are on their best behavior early in a relationship, so be wary of people who display irritability early on. It can indicate both brittleness and a sense of entitlement, not to mention disrespect. People who have a short fuse and expect that life should go according to their wishes don't make for good company. If you find yourself reflexively stepping in to soothe someone's anger, watch out.

But you have to have forgiveness in your heart. You will just take yourself under if you keep being angry.

Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.

Moments passed like the lives of the dead. Who knew how many had died in that explosion? The Order wouldn't stay long enough to count. Names would be ticked off from a list later, and their passing wouldn't seem quite so bad on the page. Yet as people fell, the counters rose, and the anger rose in those who remained.

It's true, these last few years I've lived watching myself in the act of loss—the art of losing, Elizabeth Bishop called it, but for me no art only badly-done exercises acts of the heart forced to question its presumptions in this world its mere excitements acts of the body forced to measure all instincts against pain acts of parting trying to let go without giving up yes Elizabeth a city here a village there a sister, comrade, cat and more no art to this but anger

Anger is a self-constructive process with a positive weapon and anger is a self-destructive process with a negative weapon

In general I think sadness kind of take the strength away from anger, or maybe they just waver back and forth. I don’t know. All I know is most of the time I am one or the other—angry or sad.

There was an element of dull rage in his consciousness of things.