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Quotes About Anger

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.
~ Seymour Cassel
An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.
~ Andi James Chamberlain
The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
~ Dada Bhagwan
When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
~ John Milton
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it!
~ John Newton
As for you my ex-pal you know what you can do and also you can sing for the $20 I owe you. I am making a little trip to N.Y. in the near future and we will have a little talk and you can explain your positon, altho the way I feel now if I saw you now your positon would be horizontle. I might as well tell you I am going to the gym 3 or 4 times a week and not that I need it because I always could slap you around when ever I wanted to. You know what you can do. Your Ex-Pal Joey
~ John O'Hara
Bing: You're a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
~ John O'Hara
and he turned his aim on another poor ignorant miserable anonymous bastard crouched behind another gun. A bastard whom he didn't know, had never known, would never know, and couldn't hate specifically, but kill and kill and kill and kill—and
~ John Oliver Killens
CAIUS MARCIUS: GO FUCK YOURSELF
~ John Osborne
my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited
~ John Osborne
You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.
~ John Osborne
Your anger is like a violent storm, Cade. Your emotions swirl, churning inside of you. You have to find a place of peace within that anger. An "eye" in the storm. You must center yourself within that calm eye -- in the Light. You think you cannot know peace, but the possibility of peace is all around you. If a thought or memory intrudes on your meditation, it must be like the shadow of a cloud passing across a moon. Let it go.
~ John Ostrander
If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.
~ John Piper
Neil made a face of supreme disgust, and I felt anger mushrooming inside of me. "Things like that—which people cling to as memories," he said, "it's those things that keep men from realizing their True Nature.
~ John Rechy
And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope is an end within itself. And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window—remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up—and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven?
~ John Rechy
There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig
~ John Ringo
There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig," Paula said. "We are one day going to run afoul of him and he will raise a great storm to punish us.
~ John Ringo
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.
~ John Robbins
With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
~ John Robinson
Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the same as mood. Emotions, I think, always have to do with agitated forms of desire. Whenever you're in an emotional state, you have some sort of agitated desire. So, emotions are fairly special -- I am not always in some sort of emotional state or other, but I think I am always in some mood or other.
~ John Rogers Searle
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
~ John Ruskin
It has always amazed me how angry people can get at my stupidity. How do they think I feel? They only have to be around me a couple of hours at a time. I've got me all day.
~ John Swartzwelder