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Quotes About Anger

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)
~ Donald Rothberg
A heart that boils over with rage blisters the mind and scalds reason.
~ Donita K. Paul
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
~ Donita K. Paul
Why was it that, when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing? Commissario Guido Brunetti
~ Donna Leon
Gets silly after a while, don't it, hating something because you're mad at something else, you think? (Sylvanus) ——— It's like we went into hibernation after we moved to Hampden. Never did wake up to the place. Think I always blamed it for our having to more there — silly as that sounds. (Addie)
~ Donna Morrissey
Gets silly after a while, don't it, hating something because you're mad at something else, you think? (Sylvanus) ——— It's like we went into hibernation after we moved to Hampden. Never did wake up to the place. Think I always blamed it for our having to move there — silly as that sounds. (Addie)
~ Donna Morrissey
A bitter old person is one of the crowning works of the devil.
~ Donna Partow
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
~ Donna Rice
Reaching for his toothbrush, I looked at it and realized he'd been brushing his teeth for somebody else for a long time. I don't know what possessed me to do it but I dunked it in the toilet. That pleased me so much that I rubbed it around the inside rim. That seemed so pleasant I then scrubbed up under the rim, good and hard, where no toilet brush could've reached in weeks.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
I took his aftershave and cologne out of the medicine cabinet. It occurred to me that he'd been wearing these for Karen. I peed in the bathroom glass, drained the Aramis and poured urine into two of his cologne bottles. "Up yours," I said quietly. I dropped the bottles in his bag and zipped it closed.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear. Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
~ Dorothy Allison
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
~ Dorothy Allison
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
~ Dorothy Day
Beware [of] the fury of a patient man.
~ Dorothy Grover Bolton
Forbidden emotions sent to the deep freeze commonly include pathos, anger, shame, terror, villainy and victimhood. Starting to sound familiar? So our thesis is that it just might be that our kinky desires, the drives that lead us to enact our dark and dangerous fairy tales, may very well be the longing to reunite with a part of ourselves that we have lost in the Shadow.
~ Dossie Easton
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
~ Doug Horton
A game?' Rob spluttered. 'A bloody game?' He turned to face his father. 'This is your bloody fault! I'm living your bloody karma!
~ Dougie Brimson
I think you're a shit,' said Keith sharply. 'I think much of what you've done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How's that?
~ Dougie Brimson
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams
Wilma owned a pit bull and they lived in separate trailers, side by side, and sometimes, when she was angry, she and the pit bull looked like kin to him.
~ Douglas Clegg
I watched as social media made us more connected than ever—but also more tribal than ever—and saw political parties continue to go at each other's throats like never before. I watched as the anger and hysteria grew, stoked by politicians looking to push their followers to the polls.
~ Douglas E. Richards