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Quotes About Anger

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.
~ Swami Paramananda
If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!
~ Jeffree Star
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
~ Anthony Mackie
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
~ Bob Dylan
What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn't one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
~ James Gandolfini
As soon as he stopped, I poked him with my umbrella and said 'f— you!' and got out real fast.
~ Ann Rule
If you want help, you shouldn't act like a person who never needs any," my daughter muttered to me one night when I was angry, and for once I was at a loss for words because she had so completely nailed my modus operandi.
~ Anna Quindlen
It is better described as simple-mindedness: people are often attracted to authoritarian ideas because they are bothered by complexity. They dislike divisiveness. They prefer unity. A sudden onslaught of diversity—diversity of opinions, diversity of experiences—therefore makes them angry. They seek solutions in new political language that makes them feel safer and more secure.
~ Anne Applebaum
When people say they are angry about "immigration," in other words, they are not always talking about something they have lived and experienced. They are talking about something imaginary, something they fear.
~ Anne Applebaum
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
~ Anne Bronte
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.
~ Anne Bronte
a soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger."  It isn't only in them you speak to, but in yourself.' 'Very true
~ Anne Bronte
a soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.
~ Anne Bronte
So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn: Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen or excessive diaphoresis; anger may be manifested by a generalized muscle tightness or a clenching of the jaw; sexual arousal may be noted by a tingling of the loins or piloerection; and sadness may be felt by conjunctival injection or heaviness of the chest.
~ Anne Fadiman
I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.
~ Anne Frank
People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.
~ Anne Frank
It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.
~ Anne Frank
PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer's fury had cooled?
~ Anne Frank
I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it. I'd like to scream, stamp my foot, give Mother a good shaking, cry and I don't know what else because of the nasty words, mocking looks and accusations that she hurls at me day after day, piercing me like arrows from a tightly strung bow, which are nearly impossible to pull from my body. I'd
~ Anne Frank
Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still
~ Anne Frank
It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T.
~ Anne Lamott
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
~ Anne Lamott
I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.
~ Anne Lamott