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Quotes About Anger

There is nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel.
~ Unknown
When a man's temper gets the best of him, it reveals the worst of him.
~ Unknown
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
~ Vince Cable
The wrath of God is just as much a divine attribute as his love; therefore, to have a proper understanding of God, we must know and embrace the doctrine of the wrath of God.
~ Unknown
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. (Romans 2:8)
~ Unknown
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them" (Romans 1:18-19). Therefore, God's intense anger will punish all non-Christians and make them suffer.
~ Unknown
It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
You get angry whenever I expostulate with you, or rather you don't give a damn, and all the rest of it, which we know by now, and yet I believe a time will come when, of your own accord, you will come to the conclusion that you have been too weak to persevere in trying to help me regain some credit with people.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Fury provides arms.
~ Virgil
When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart they are trying to change.
~ Unknown
When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart
~ Unknown
The will of angry gods, an unknown force, are dragging me along, despite myself.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Collectively speaking, if we chart the internal mood of every successful movement for social integration we find that, ironically, with each advance made it is anger—not hope, much less elation—that deepens in the petitioners at the gate. Ironic but not surprising: to petition repeatedly is to be reminded repeatedly that one is not wanted, never had been, never will be.
~ Vivian Gornick
Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice.
~ Unknown
I knew we were supposed to bark because CJ was always angry when someone knocked. "Hey! Stop! Quiet! Enough!" she would yell. I didn't understand the words, but the meaning was clear: she was upset with the knocking and we should keep barking.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing our private lives;The unmentionable odor of deathOffends the September night.
~ W. H. Auden
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.
~ Unknown
I am going to kill your father," Gaston said. "May I hold him down?" "Will it be necessary?" he asked. "Non, but I feel I will garner great satisfaction in being a participant.
~ Unknown
Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!
~ W.C. Fields
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
~ Seneca the Younger
We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg