3,090 Quotes About Anger

He could see I meant what I said, and was temporarily defeated. He walked past me and into the corridor; his eyes were angry and malevolent. I was horrified because I realized that he really believed I would have become his mistress that night.

Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?

She is such a conduit of rage, it is a wonder she does not catch alight.

Life = Time allotted to us! Let's not waste it on hatred,jealousy,anger!

Confronting your enemy in anger feeds your ego, but diminishes your chance of success.

As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.

He’d spent his life carefully not looking into an abyss of rage like the pit of hellfire he’d so often been told awaited pagans, because if he ever really looked, he feared he might be angry forever.

But, Jocelyn, if I really were all those things [good, kind, talented, hard working, open to change, and adorable]... ...I would die.'I wasn't sure what I meant by this, but it suddenly struck me as the truth.'Because you'd rather die than feel anger at your mother for not giving you what you needed?

It begins as disbelief and ends in sorrow, but in between those two phases her whole body shakes with anger.