3,090 Quotes About Anger

Ever notice how when you're extremely upset, everyone becomes bad at listening? Wonder what that's about...

It wasn't that I didn't love you–I needed protecting frommy sisters & brothers / the oneswhose anger I takebecause each pain means I wasalive. My first memory comesnot from your lovebut theirs.

Sometimes all it takes is a simple word, a mere nothing, a well-intentioned but over-protective gesture, like the gesture made, quite unwittingly, by the Mathematics teacher, for the pacific, docile, submissive person suddenly to vanish and be replaced, to the dismay and incomprehension of those who thought they knew all there was to know about the human soul, by the blind, devastating wrath of the meek. It doesn't usually last very long, but while it does, it inspires real fear.

It is Jerry's theory that the Swede is nice, that is to say passive, that is to say trying always to do the right thing, a socially controlled character who doesn't burst out, doesn't yield to rage ever. Will not have the angry quality as his liability, so doesn't get it as an asset either. According to this theory, it's the no-rage that kills him in the end. Whereas aggression is cleansing or curing.

In anger, I have lived more fully, freely, intensely, sensitively, and politically.

Now, St. John could have been born into his elegance. It's a dangerous kind of elegance—he doesn't raise his voice, he lowers it.

If there is anything that makes the ministry look grim and dull, it i the dark, insidious anger in the servants of Christ.

Your big enemy resides inside you, and that's your anger. Your sweet friend also resides inside you, and that's your patience. First one shows your weakness and narrowness and other one shows your strongness and broadness.

Everywhere the same madness: people fighting and crying out for their own destruction.