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Quotes About Anger

Snorting with disgust, Meta stamped out.
~ Harry Harrison
Kerk slammed his hand down hard on the table. The dishes bounced and the table legs creaked. Laboratory reactions! he growled.
~ Harry Harrison
Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
~ Haruki Murakami
People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.
~ Haruki Murakami
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.
~ Haruki Murakami
There wasn't any anger involved (I think). I mean, what was I supposed to be angry with? What I was feeling was a fundamental numbness. The numbness your heart automatically activates to lessen the awful pain when you want somebody desperately and they reject you. A kind of emotional morphine.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you," the boy named Crow says. "Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about. Do that and you really will be the toughest fifteen-year-old on the planet. You following me? There's still time. You can still get your self back. Use your head. Think about what you've got to do. You're no dunce. You should be able to figure it out.
~ Haruki Murakami
It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are things in this world you can't do a damn thing about." "Like what?" "Like a rotten tooth, for example. One day it just starts aching. No one can ease the pain, no matter how hard they try to comfort you. It makes you furious with yourself. Next thing you know you're furious with them because they aren't pissed off with themselves. See how it escalates?
~ Haruki Murakami
Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.
~ Haruki Murakami
And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada
~ Haruki Murakami
You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you," the boy named Crow says. "Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about.
~ Haruki Murakami
The cook hates the waiter, and they both hate the customer," Haida said. "A line from the Arnold Wesker play The Kitchen. People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
~ Haruki Murakami
Do you See that Little Child standing in the yard watching you, You Stupid Son-of-a-Bitch?!?" When pressed, Dad had a way of emphasizing certain words that was like Winnie-the-Pooh gone bad.
~ Haven Kimmel
These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.
~ Heather Corinna
They had this angry look about them, as if they had been falling off swings all day.
~ Heather O'Neill
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
~ Anthony Trollope
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
~ Barry Hannah
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
~ Baltasar Gracian
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
~ Wayne Dyer
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
~ Dalai Lama
My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad.
~ Mookie Betts
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
~ Josh Turner