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Quotes About Anger

The feeling that your daughter is a deviant already and will only get worse. In a flash, you can see her as a feral adolescent, as a dirty-bomb teenager, a burst of invisible and spreading fury. Where is she now? She's fled, not to her room but somewhere else, a closet, she always hides somewhere disturbing, a place befitting a German fairy tale. Believe
~ Dave Eggers
I know that at your age you can feel powerless, and that powerlessness can make you angry.
~ Dave Eggers
He said quietly, "My life is over, Katie. But whoever did this to Anna is going to die. And soon.
~ David Baldacci
Rogers raised a fist to deliver a blow to the head that would have almost certainly killed the man. The spot on his head was burning like somebody had set it on fire with an acetylene torch.
~ David Baldacci
my anger directed toward someone who has knowingly, intentionally, and unnecessarily acted in a hurtful manner?     2.   Is my anger useful? Does it help me achieve a desired goal or does it simply defeat me?
~ David D. Burns
The perception of unfairness or injustice is the ultimate cause of most, if not all, anger... In fact, fairness is simply a perceptual interpretation... Your assumption that they are "being unfair" implies that your way of looking at things is universally accepted.
~ David D. Burns
Bu dünyan?n olaylar?, sizi öfkelendirmiyor. S?cak düÅŸünceleriniz öfkelendiriyor. Gerçekten olumsuz bir olay olduÄŸunda bile duygusal tepkinizi belirleyen ona yüklediÄŸiniz anlamd?r.
~ David D. Burns
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep
~ David D. Burns
Other-Directed Shoulds lead to feelings of anger and frustration when others don't meet our expectations ("He shouldn't feel that way" or "She shouldn't have said that!"). Other-directed shoulds cause conflicts with others, such as marital problems, arguments, and even violence and war.
~ David D. Burns
World-Directed Shoulds lead to frustration and anger when the world doesn't meet our expectations. For example, I sometimes tell myself that this or that software program shouldn't be so dang complicated and hard to learn!
~ David D. Burns
When you screw up real bad, you can either be afraid or you can flare out in anger and blame somebody else. Not because you don't know better, but because it's the only way to control your fear. It isn't pretty, but there's no pretty way to screw up bad.
~ David Drake
Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them. You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. Won't that make them angry? Are you afraid of a chicken?
~ David Eddings
You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
~ David Eddings
Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.
~ David Eddings
doesn't make any sense," he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into
~ David Eddings
You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
~ David Eddings
Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
~ David Foster Wallace
Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
~ David Foster Wallace
What fire dies when you feed it?
~ David Foster Wallace
This is what happens: you imagine the things I will say and then say them for me and then become angry with them. Without my mouth; it never opens. You speak to yourself, inventing sides. This itself is the habit of children: lazy, lonely, self.
~ David Foster Wallace
Me imitaba cuando yo estaba molesto -solamente el amor de la vida de uno puede hacer esto- y a mí se me pasaba el enfado
~ David Foster Wallace
This is what happens: you imagine the things I will say and then say them for me and then become angry with them. Without my mouth; it never opens. You speak to yourself, inventing sides. This itself is the habit of children: lazy, lonely, self. I
~ David Foster Wallace
You think that enough?" said I. "Yes," said he, "and moreover it is all that we can do. If in addition we torture the man, we turn his grief into anger, and the humiliation he would otherwise feel for his wrong-doing is swallowed up by a hope of revenge for our wrong-doing to him.
~ William Morris
Oh, John, you're a great father, but you don't understand kids. I've worked in hospitals with kids like Jennifer. Kids that were terminal. They had it figured out long before their parents could admit it to themselves." "She is not terminal," he snarled, glaring at Makala angrily. She said nothing. "Damn you, no." He was humiliated by the tears that suddenly clouded his vision. He struggled to choke back the sobs that now overwhelmed him.
~ William R. Forstchen