Quotes About Anger

I opened the door to my own cage and freed myself. My illnesses ended. I demanded good medical care and got it. I respected myself and, with compassion for my whole self, got it. I learned that my anger was a beautiful thing. A powerful part of me, like my other valuable senses, like smell and taste and touch. That anger, when used properly, when controlled, when chosen appropriately, is a valuable action.

When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.

It's amazing how otherwise rational people can turn into jerks when emotions run amok.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie

Smitty leaned forward, resting his arms on this raised knees. "I am fixin' to get mad, Jessie. "You're fixin' to get mad?" "Yeah." "Why don't you just get mad?" "I'm not there yet. But I will be if you don't start talking to me." Smitty to Jessie Ann

Mace growled and wondered how much prison time a man would do for tossing his sister into the East River.

He'd hate to start killing people at this stage in the game. Especially some poor schmuck who happened to marry the wrong woman.

Van Holtz, you bastard! You're doing this on purp…on…oh! That feels very nice. Do that again.

Well, you can take your cellar of death where you keep all the bodies of the women you've slaughtered over the years and go to hell. Because this target, which you probably refer to as *it' in your head to keep me as merely an object, is not going down without a fight!

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.