Quotes About Anger

Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent.

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived.

If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this? / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

Recognition of this lack might break you apart. Or recognition might illuminate the erasure the attempted erasure triggers. Whether such discerning creates a healthier, if more isolated, self, you can't know. In any case, Youngman doesn't speak to this kind of anger. He doesn't say that witnessing the expression of this more ordinary and daily anger might make the witness believe that a person is "insane." And

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived. Recognition

goddam upset me." She

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

Shut your fucking face.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

Ik ben zo gek op sigaretten dat ik soms zin krijg om niet-rokers op hun bakkes te slaan.

Hier en daar een antenne knakken, een achteruitkijkspiegel afbreken, een deuk stompen, een kras maken? (...) Als zoiets je enige vorm van voldoening geeft, ben je een stompzinnige idioot.

to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

there was no room for dissent when it came to his beliefs, which were presented as mathematical laws. To question any of these principles resulted in disproportionate anger. Pushing back after that prompted a stubborn silence, his final and irrefutable argument. Partly because, over time, his reaction had gotten to be more exhausting than threatening, partly because it was an easy and entertaining form of rebellion, provoking him became my main sport for a

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?

Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

You . . . person," he says; and again, "you nobody from Hell, you whore-spawn, you cluster of evil, you lawyer.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

My mother did not need much food - she ran on wrath (pp94)

He readied himself for an outburst of anger that never happened. So he became angry for her and tried not to show it in her presence.

The urge to kill is shown by glares, not by words.