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Quotes About Anger

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.
~ Terry Pratchett
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
~ Timothy Keller
Happy Tuesday! Get your light and life back! Steer your energy in the right direction. Let go of any anger you have for others and prepare to be the best you!
~ Tracey Edmonds
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.
~ Suzanne Collins
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
~ Thomas Harris
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
~ Jack Kornfield
You're not wearing rose-colored glasses—you can see challenges very clearly. But instead of only focusing on how hard it all is, you see possibility and potential within the intense energy of your emotions: anger's brilliant clarity; jealousy's content and generous heart; attachment's pure love and compassion.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop
hatred bounces
~ e. e. cummings
I am so angry. And so happy to see him.
~ E. Lockhart
Of course I'm angry," I say. "Two years of disappearance. Never calling and not writing back and making everything worse by not dealing. Now you're all, Ooh, I thought I'd never see you again, and holding my hand and Everyone hugs you but me and half-naked perimeter walking. It's severely suboptimal, Gat. If that's the word you want to use." His face falls. "Damn. It sounds bad when you put it that way.
~ E. Lockhart
So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember.
~ E. Lockhart
There is no point to writing fiction without risks. I would rather anger a reader than bore her. I would rather speak my truth and be laughed at or ignored than stick to what is easy and familiar.
~ E. Lockhart
I thought she was a conniving, lying, man-stealing bitch, and I hoped she would fall in a volcano and die a horrible lava death.7 But
~ E. Lockhart
and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself, and I know any anger we felt has disappeared.
~ E. Lockhart
If I'd ever told my mother about what happened with the boyfriend list (which I never did), she would have said that Kim is a double-crossing backbiter. Then she'd have said I should vent my rage, forget all about Kim, get on with it and go eat some soy-based product.
~ E. Lockhart
I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
~ E. Lockhart
And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking place to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
I hit my fist into the wall of the shower. I washed off the shame and anger in cold, cold water.
~ E. Lockhart
And Gat did shut up, but his face contorted. He stood abruptly, picked up a rock from the sand, and threw it with all his force. He pulled off his sweatshirt and kicked off his shoes. Then he walked into the sea in his jeans. Angry.
~ E. Lockhart
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
~ E. Stanley Jones
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
~ E. Stanley Jones
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.
~ E.M. Forster