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Quotes About Anger

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in- that's stronger.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It was a worse thing, answered the Ancient One. It was anger. When a man is overcome by anger he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others, he throws away time in which he might have gained the end he most desires. THERE IS NO TIME FOR ANGER IN THE WORLD.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you lie through the night upon the battlements and think only of the stillness and the stars you will forget your anger and its poison will die away. If you put into your mind a beautiful thought it will take the place of the evil one. There is no room for darkness in the mind of him who thinks only of the stars.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.
~ Francesca Lia Block
He nodded and half smiled. Right-you're the hearts-and-flowers girl. Her cheeks warmed with anger. His smile didn't make up for his sarcasm. And you're the scorn-and-bile boy.
~ Francine Pascal
Heather was paralyzed. Anger told her to get between them and make trouble, Pride told her to run away. Hurt told her to cry. Cunning told her to make Sam feel as guilty and small as possible. She waited to hear what Intelligence had to say. It never spoke first, but its advice was usually worth waiting for.
~ Francine Pascal
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
~ Francine Rivers
It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.
~ Francine Rivers
Resentment and anger eat away at love as quickly as rust is corroding that metal lawn chair out there in the backyard. One of life's great tragedies is watching a relationship unravel over something that could've been resolved in one intelligent, adult conversation.
~ Francine Rivers
Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
~ Francine Rivers
The only reason I don't kill him, he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, is because he's not important enough.
~ Frank Beddor
Off with their heads! the woman screamed. Off with their stinking, boring heads! Redd, The Looking Class Wars
~ Frank Beddor
I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that!?" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that's evil?" "Maybe…if it's an evil guinea pig?
~ Frank Beddor
I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.
~ Frank Conroy
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
~ Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
~ Frank Herbert
I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
~ Frank Herbert
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza
~ Frank Herbert
We will never forgive and we will never forget.
~ Frank Herbert
Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will try to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.
~ Frank Herbert
I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it.
~ Frank Herbert
Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
~ Frank Herbert
wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
~ Frank Herbert
So I had a son! Jessica flared. And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately. You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides. It meant so much to him, Jessica pleaded.
~ Frank Herbert