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Quotes About Anger

Your soul may feel broken, wounded, hurt from mistakes you've made or from what someone else did. But your soul can be restored. When you get honest with yourself and you release what you need to release—guilt, worry, anger, jealousy—then healing will come. Joy will come.
~ Joel Osteen
Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.
~ Joey Comeau
Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.
~ Joey Comeau
In the end it never works out. You are who you are, no matter what you pretend at the beginning. So I'm not pretending. I drink to ignore my problems. I spend more time with my computer than with my friends. I am angry and lonely, but I can wash dishes just fine. I'm being honest. Please don't be an asshole about this.
~ Joey Comeau
Get out." Marcus' eyes went freezing cold, his face as hard mask, the cleaned but unstitched slash making him look far more dangerous. "I don't want to deal with this carp right now." "I've never gotten in, so how the hell can I get out?
~ Joey W. Hill
Christ, I'm so furious with you.
~ Joey W. Hill
Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction.
~ Joey W. Hill
Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us.
~ Johann Hari
If it's more enraging, it's more engaging.
~ Johann Hari
Sospecho que todo aquel que haya querido a un drogadicto - y todo el que haya estado alguna vez enganchado a la droga - alberga en su interior el mismo impulso (...). Querrá destruir la adicción. Aniquilar esa dependencia. Asfixiarla con furia. Harry Anslinger no es sino una muestra de lo que sucede con nuestros impulsos mas escondidos cuando a uno se le da poder y licencia para matar.
~ Johann Hari
If it's more enraging, it's more engaging. If enough people are spending enough of their time being angered, that starts to change the culture. As Tristan told me, that turns hate into a habit.
~ Johann Hari
Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.
~ Henry Fielding
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
~ James Hillman
What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
~ Jen Lancaster
Anger manages everything badly.
~ Johannes Stadius
You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
~ Alison Lurie
I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and lost. Like myself in real life.
~ Zach Galifianakis