3,090 Quotes About Anger

Women live their lives trying to create bodies of deference. And anger is not compatible with deference... In the "cosmetic panopticon," expressing anger is disobedient and rebellious, powerful and threatening, because it is the seed of aggression and collective action.

The task— especially for the newly awakened, the newly angry, especially for the white women, for whom incentives to renounce their rage will be highest in coming years—is to keep going, to not turn back, to not give in to the easier path, the one where we weren’t angry all the time, where we accepted the comforts of racial and economic advantage that will always be on offer to those who don’t challenge power. Our job is to stay angry . . . perhaps for a very long time.

It is not only that we have the right to claim anger. It is that our anger is a moral obligation.

Anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking.

What was rage but a cover for some secret fragility, some sorrow?

বুকের মধ্যে রাগ বিরক্তি দুঃখ জমাট বেঁধে গেলে মানুষ তা একা একা বয়ে বেড়াতে পারে, কিন্তু খুশির চাপ বড় অসহ্য। খুশিটাকে কারুর কাছে উজাড় করে না দিতে পারা পর্যন্ত কেমন যেন শান্তি হয় না।

Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.

...although being "angry at God"--or at myself, or him, or anyone else--made no sense to me, I was often overwhelmed by sudden, intense bursts of anger that had no outlet, no appropriate target.

…and what she saw was an electrical storm in sultry August buttoned into a taut gray cotton dress. In a moment the explosion would come….