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Quotes About Anger

My bark is far, far worse than my bite.
~ Jack Monroe
People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.
~ Jeanne Phillips
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
~ Pete Townshend
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
~ Ingmar Bergman
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
~ David Hockney
I was an angry kid, and boxing kept me out of trouble.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
~ Malala Yousafzai
When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
~ Amy Heckerling
I've seen the police brutality.
~ George Hill
When I was a kid, I used to stop bullies. I'd get so angry when I saw people being bullied. I'd be like, 'Stop doing that to him!'
~ Skepta
What's more confrontational than burning cities for almost a year?
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
You know what burns me? Matches.
~ Jay London
Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
~ Pamela Meyer
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.
~ Gerry Cooney
I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.
~ Hannah Simone
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
~ Michael Sheen
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't want to be the angry black man.
~ Sam Gyimah
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
~ Yochai Benkler
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
~ Clare Short
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
~ Frank Luntz
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
~ Clare Short
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.
~ Ali Wong