Quotes About Anger

There was a definite feel about Adora Belle Dearheart that a lid was only barely holding down an entire womanful of anger.

Whoever said that a soft answer turneth away wroth had never worked in a bar.

She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football.

In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.

What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen.

What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. I have talked to myself for years in the privacy of my journals.

Restraint is the steel partition between a rational mind and a violent one.

Do not let your anger misguide you, my friend.

only later, when we had wasted so much time, was I able to see that I had thrown away my chances at happiness. So I have learned to let go of anger, to never let it wrap its talons around me again.

do not confuse what you hope to accomplish with your personal anger. It will only muddy things.

When a person's speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

When you produce a thought that is full of understanding, forgiveness, and compassion, that thought will immediately have a healing effect on both your physical and mental health and on those around you. If you think a thought that is full of judgment and anger, that thought will immediately poison your body and mind and the people around you.

Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.

Anger is rooted in our lack of understanding of ourselves and of the causes, deep-seated as well as immediate, that brought about this unpleasant state of affairs. Anger is also rooted in desire, pride, agitation, and suspicion. The primary roots of our anger are in ourselves. Our environment and other people are only secondary.

When people say, "Don't just sit there, do something," they're urging you to act. But if the quality of your being is poor—if you don't have enough peace, understanding, and equanimity, if you still have a lot of anger and worries—then your actions will also be poor.

Nothing can heal anger except compassion.

If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value.

When we're angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When we're joyful, we are joy. When we're angry, we are anger. When we love, we are love. When we hate, we are hatred. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy.

Angry words backfire upon the speaker.

When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

When we're carrying this germ, we're just wars waiting to happen.