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Quotes About Emotions

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
~ Carl Sandburg
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
~ Jonathan Edwards
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
~ Aristotle
It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.
~ Richey Edwards
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
~ Gautama Buddha
Anger and anger can not solve any problem.
~ Grace Kelly
The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.
~ Ayya Khema
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
~ Heraclitus
As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.
~ John Climacus
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.
~ Michio Kushi
When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
~ Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
~ Sonja Lyubomirsky
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~ Sydney J. Harris
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
~ Alice Miller
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.
~ James Clavell
Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
~ Jeff Cooper
There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Please let go your anger and please send my Saet Byul back. She is my everything
~ Kim Soo-hyun
The best cure for anger is delay.
~ Seneca the Younger
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
~ Patrick Rothfuss