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Quotes About Anger

Yes, that's what made my mother angry, no doubt about it. The ostentatious virility.
~ Philip Roth
I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.
~ Philip Roth
Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…
~ Philip Roth
To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.
~ Philip Roth
Estas siempre enfadada con tu mama?" "La odio." "Por qué, Linda?" "Ella me odia a mí." "Her pressure's 120 over 100," said Sabbath.
~ Philip Roth
If I know anything about periodontists, she's thought of strangling you more than once. In your sleep.
~ Philip Roth
I won't forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lose his son. He will spend his life longing for an heir. He will bury his first born and long for him, for I cannot even bury mine.
~ Philippa Gregory
I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist.
~ Philippa Gregory
Why are you storing forbidden books?' I cried out in frustrated anger. 'Why store John Dee's books for him?' His face was gentle. 'Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror.
~ Philippa Gregory
A lady will find her defenders. The men around you will speak for you if needs be,' Brother Peter assured her, not realising that he was recommending a view of women which had kept them powerless for centuries, and would lead them to be victims of male anger and male power forever.
~ Philippa Gregory
The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled "Tolerance.
~ Phyllis McGinley
I don't care , she thought angrily, turning all her anger back onto Wally again. I am going to make him as miserable as I can this Christmas, and if we're both stuck in fourth grade for the rest of our lives, he'll be sorry he ever heard the name Malloy.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Caroline Malloy, the Crazie, went after her sister with a hammer. Missed, but I can imagine what the hammer did to the floor.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Caroline didn't know whether she was more angry or excited. Every time the boys did something to them, it just gave the girls an excuse to do something worse.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Enough , you hens! Niobe exploded. It's tentative! Lachesis snorted As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!
~ Piers Anthony
Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.
~ Piers Anthony
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
~ Plato
no man should be angry at what is true. But those who love the truth in each thing are to be called lovers of wisdom and not lovers of opinion. Assuredly.
~ Plato
But the question is not quite so easy when we proceed to ask whether these principles are three or one; whether, that is to say, we learn with one part of our nature, are angry with another, and with a third part desire the satisfaction of our natural appetites; or whether the whole soul comes into play in each sort of action—to determine that is the difficulty. Yes, he said; there lies the difficulty. Then
~ Plato
Cuando se suscita en el alma alguna rebelión, la cólera toma siempre las armas en favor de la razón.
~ Plato
Moreover, in fits of anger, in fears, in the disturbances that come over souls in bad fortune and the release from such things that comes with good fortune, in the experiences brought by diseases and wars and poverty, and the experiences brought upon human beings by the opposite circumstances — in all such situations what is noble and what is ignoble in each case must be taught and defined.
~ Plato
This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law.
~ Primo Levi
Dat maakt me woedend, hoewel ik toch allang weet dat het in de orde der dingen ligt dat de bevoorrechten de niet-bevoorrechten onderdrukken: op die mensenwet berust de sociale structuur van het kamp.
~ Primo Levi
The door opened with a crash, and the dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.
~ Primo Levi