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Quotes About Anger

You're a vile human being," said Pettle, the words spilling from his mouth before he could stop them.
~ John Connolly
his obligations were few. They could, in fact, be boiled down to one: to find the one who had taken his wife and child from this world and tear him apart.
~ John Connolly
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
~ John Connolly
The causes of evil karma are greed, anger, and ignorance—the three poisons. We create karma through action, by what we do with our body, words, and thoughts. In atoning we take full and unequivocal responsibility for it all. When we do that, we empower ourself. It becomes our evil karma, not someone else's. We acknowledge ourself as an active agent, not a passive victim. We begin to recognize that our life is not just something that happens to us.
~ John Daido Loori
All evil karma ever committed by me since of old, Because of my beginningless greed, anger, and ignorance, Born of my body, mouth, and thought, Now I atone for it all.
~ John Daido Loori
We occasionally hear of "righteous anger." We mean anger that is justified by circumstances. But, in a sense, all anger is righteous. That is, all anger justifies itself in the mind of the person who feels the anger. In another sense, there is no such thing as righteous anger. For no anger can really justify itself.
~ JOHN DANIEL BARRY
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
~ John Dryden
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
~ John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
~ John Dryden
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
~ Doris Lessing
Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.
~ Lucy Freeman
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.
~ Charles Dickens
I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.
~ Usher
I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
~ Jimmy Nail
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
~ Stephen King, Misery
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
~ Sienna Miller
I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
~ Park Chan-wook
When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.
~ Charlie Cox
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
~ Amber Tamblyn
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.
~ Ann Hood
Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.
~ Anne Heche
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
~ Bob Dylan
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
~ Brendan Behan