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Quotes About Anger

Instead she violently signed Bite, angry, angry, bite! with both hands right in my face. It was an astonishing and very intimidating performance.
~ Douglas Preston
You," he began. "You bastards." Silence. "Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault!" His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking his lips.
~ Douglas Preston
I feel grief at the waste of myself in those years, anger at the mutilation and manipulation of the relationship between mother and child, which is the great original source and experience of love.
~ Adrienne Rich
It's true, these last few years I've lived watching myself in the act of loss—the art of losing, Elizabeth Bishop called it, but for me no art only badly-done exercises acts of the heart forced to question its presumptions in this world its mere excitements acts of the body forced to measure all instincts against pain acts of parting trying to let go without giving up yes Elizabeth a city here a village there a sister, comrade, cat and more no art to this but anger
~ Adrienne Rich
The mail lets fall a Xerox of something written by a man aged 27, a hostage, tortured in prison: My genitals have been the object of such a sadistic display they keep me constantly awake with the pain... Do whatever you can to survive. You know, I think that men love wars... And my incurable anger, my unbendable wounds break open further with ears, I am crying helplessly, and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.
~ Adrienne Rich
Necessity for a more unyielding discipline of my life. Recognize the uselessness of blind anger. Limit society. Use children's school hours better, for work & solitude. Refuse to be distracted from own style o flife. Less waste. Be harder & harder on poems.
~ Adrienne Rich
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
~ Aeschylus
Chanting aloud in realms below The dead are wroth; Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
~ Aeschylus
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
~ Aeschylus
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
~ Aeschylus
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
~ Agatha Christie
I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
~ Agatha Christie
I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself.
~ Agatha Christie
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something.
~ Agatha Christie
I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.
~ Agatha Christie
He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid. About Mickey Argyle
~ Agatha Christie
You are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most women, happiness means coming and going, busied over small affairs. It is care for one's children and laughter and conversation and quarrels with other women and alternate love and anger with a man. It is made up of small things strung together like beads on a string.
~ Agatha Christie
Flog this man to death and throw him out in the rubbish heap!
~ Agatha Christie
Now you must realize this, Hastings. Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill. How often have you not felt or heard others say: 'She made me so furious
~ Agatha Christie
As pessoas mais caladas e submissas são muitas vezes capazes da violência mais repentina e inesperada, pois quando perdem o controle, elas o perdem por inteiro!
~ Agatha Christie
Hate isn't creative." - Stillingfleet
~ Agatha Christie
I thought the Chief Constable was going to have apoplexy.
~ Agatha Christie
He tailed off into furious profanity.
~ Agatha Christie
That's why you often find that the author of anonymous letters is the last person in the place to be suspected. Some quiet inoffensive little soul who apparently can't say Bo to a goose—all sweetness and Christian meekness on the outside—and seething with all the fury of hell underneath!
~ Agatha Christie