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Quotes About Anger

The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.
~ William Goldman
Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?
~ William Goldman
Non hai pensato che ho sostenuto grandi sforzi e molte spese, e sono incorso in disagi personali, per arrivare fin qui» osservò l'uomo in nero «e se fallisco ora, potrei arrabbiarmi molto? E se lei dovesse smettere di respirare, tu potresti ammalarti della stessa fatale malattia?»
~ William Goldman
His fists raised, his cheeks flushed with rage, his whole body trembling, the man stood there in front of me, beside himself with fury and having lost all self-control. After each outburst Hitler would stride up and down the carpet edge, then suddenly stop immediately before me and hurl his next accusation in my face. He was almost screaming, his eyes seemed to pop out of his head and the veins stood out in his temples.
~ William L. Shirer
He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47
~ William L. Shirer
If tears of grief flowed from the eyes and tears of anger from the ears, I could show my heart without saying a word. But my tears all pour in the same way from my eyes, and there's no difference in their color. It's not surprising that you can't tell what's in my heart.
~ Chikamatsu Monzaemon
When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.
~ China Mieville
shit, shit, shit.
~ China Mieville
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.
~ Chinese proverb
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
~ Chinese proverb
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
~ Chinese proverb
An angry man is always a stupid man.
~ Chinua Achebe
a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we're angry, we know we're right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.
~ Chip Heath
She said, "When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed.…
~ Chip Heath
The linkages between emotion and behavior can be more subtle, though. For instance, a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we're angry, we know we're right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.
~ Chip Heath
Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
~ Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
~ Chip Ingram
why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The herbs and chants weren't working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
How entangled love is with expectation, that poison vine! The stronger the expectation, the more our anger towards the beloved if he doesn't fulfil it—and the less our control over ourselves.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
But one thing Krishna said struck me directly. When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni