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Quotes About Anger

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
~ Billy Childish
Don't you dare to squeeze that sponge over me,' she began angrily. 'This beastly getting up early! Why, at home . . .' 'Why, at home, "We don't get up till eight o'clock,"' chanted some of the girls, and laughed. They knew Gwendoline Mary's complaints by heart now.
~ Blyton Enid
Sean," Mattis finally said, "I've killed people for a living. If you call me again, I'm going to fucking send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?
~ Bob Woodward
Trump's obsessive and unfiltered venting had brought him to the edge once again.
~ Bob Woodward
Everyone wants your position," Trump continued. "I made a huge mistake giving it to you." The president continued with venom. It was chilling. Cohn had never been talked to or treated like that in his life. "This is treason," Trump said.
~ Bob Woodward
excessive anger against authority, vindictiveness and temper tantrums. As far as she was concerned, that described the press.
~ Bob Woodward
I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.
~ Bob Woodward
We did not live the way he wanted us to live and did not obey his teaching. 25So he became very angry with us and brought terrible wars against us. It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them, but they didn't know what was happening. It was as if they were burning, but they didn't pay any attention.
~ Bobbie Wolgemuth
19The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins,20worshiping gods, doing witchcraft, hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people,21feeling envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like these. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not inherit God's kingdom.
~ Bobbie Wolgemuth
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...
~ Bohumil Hrabal
The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.
~ Bonnie Greer
You crushed sofa! You crumpled bedsheet! Khrapugina screamed
~ Boris Pasternak
The most common trigger, worldwide, that tripped an angry mob into violence was the sound of breaking glass.
~ Brad Thor
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
~ Bram Stoker
At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.
~ Bram Stoker
The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.
~ Bram Stoker
For who can remain angry with Mr Segundus? I dare say there are people in the world who are able to resent goodness and amiability, whose spirits are irritated by gentleness- but I am glad to say that Jonathan Strange was not of their number.
~ Susanna Clarke
I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do. (pg. 48)
~ Susanna Clarke
Back then I didn't know that I­­or anyone­­could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. The result was chronic emptiness and boredom. There were more pernicious results as well: self­loathing, alternating with inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper...
~ Susanna Kaysen
He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Attachment was my mother, and anger was my father. They both died, so I have nothing to do. Now I do not need to do anything." Meditation will become your very nature when you give up attachment, anger, and pride. Then you will not have to pose for meditation, for your whole life will be a sort of meditation.
~ Swami Rama
But no guard would accompany us; because of public anger over the destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya, a national strike day had been declared, and no one was working.
~ Sy Montgomery
Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations. ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
I WAS seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy's arms, kissing him... It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked he ass in self-defense.
~ Sylvia Day