3,090 Quotes About Anger

There is a reason why they call it a pea brain when we get angry.

[A]nger in its pure state is the measure of the way we are implicated in the world and made vulnerable through love in all its specifics: a daughter, a house, a family, an enterprise, a land or a colleague.

You are sometimes the person who someone who seems, to you, to feel like killing themselves, feels like killing.

Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.

Letting go of anger is the best way to find peace of mind, a healthier pain-free body, and an indomitable spirit.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never “bite” or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she’s terribly guilty—of something, anything, who knows what?

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.

Sexuality and anger are often written with the same note, but never on the same line, because they don’t make music together.