Quotes About Anger

I wonder how he'd feel if I cut off his nut sack and flung it against the cupboard door.

I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don't even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.

The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.

Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because hope doesn't belong to us: it belongs to our ancestors, the first of our kind, whose brave love for one another gave us most of the good that we are.

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

love makes men big, and hate makes them small.

His face was unmarked, his skin showing no scar or scratch or faded bruise. It occurred to me, as I listened to his genial chatter, that it was likely he'd never been in a fight, or even closed his fist in anger. I envied him. When I allowed myself to look into the half-collapsed tunnel of the past, it seemed that I'd been fighting all my life.

Her hair was awry, and her amber eyes blazed with rage and determination.

Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because hope doesn't belong to us: it belongs to our ancestors, the first of our kind, whose brave love for one another gave us most of the good that we are. And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds.

I was almost angry that she'd made me see the unlovely truth of my house.

How old is he?' 'Thirty.' 'He looks older.' 'They all do. All the Europeans look older and angrier than they really are. It's a white thing.

Each breath was an angry little victory.

Then the smoulders of shame and guilt flamed into anger, became fist-tightening rage at the unfairness of it: What kind of a government, I thought, what kind of a system allows suffering like this?

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

Happiness is a myth, Karla snapped back angrily. It was invented to make us buy things.

I was still angry, and hungry.

You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

I was angry that she'd told me so little of the truth, and prepared me so poorly for the interview. I was hurt that she didn't trust me enough to give me the whole story.

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.