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Quotes About Anger

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.
~ Bill Vaughan
People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
~ Unknown
OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.
~ Thom Yorke
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence
~ Rick Riordan
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.
~ Pietro Metastasio
My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.
~ Christopher Titus
Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
~ Chuck Berry
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
~ John Milton
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
~ Sylvia Plath
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
~ William Shakespeare
You get angry - death does that.
~ Annabella Sciorra
Whether outright government-sanctioned persecution was inevitable, nobody could say for sure, but the fear of persecution was such that not even a practical man grounded in his everyday tasks, a person who tried his best to contain the uncertainty and the anxiety and the anger and operate according to the dictates of reason, could hope to preserve his equilibrium any longer.
~ Philip Roth
It's not being angry that's important, it's being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.
~ Philip Roth