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Quotes About Anger

We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger.
~ Dean Koontz
A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.
~ Dean Koontz
In a world sick with envy that leads to coveting that leads to greed that too often results in violence, it wouldn't seem that something as small as excellent muffins could lift a man's spirits, even during talk of murder. But that is the way of the world: sadness and delight, anger and forbearance, hatred and love—all woven together in every inch of the tapestry.
~ Dean Koontz
to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger
~ Dean Koontz
Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger when the reason for her outrage is someone who can't be affected by anything she does or some malignant force in society that, when challenged, will engulf her and dissolve her in a metastatic frenzy. Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;
~ Dean Koontz
Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;
~ Dean Koontz
You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.
~ Dean Koontz
I want them dead.
~ Dean Koontz
Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers
~ Dean Koontz
The angry man shoots too often from the hip and misses his target or hits the wrong one, while a wrathful man proceeds without malice but with a thirst for justice.
~ Dean Koontz
A child can love a mother who has no capacity to love him in return, but in time, he realizes that he is pouring his affection not on fertile ground but on rock, where nothing can be grown. A child might then spend a life defined by settled anger or by self-pity. If the mother is not a monster, if she is instead emotionally disconnected and self-absorbed, and if she
~ Dean Koontz
He dared not ask for details of the cruelties that she had visited upon their daughter. For the first time, Brian realized that, if he were privy to all the facts, he might be driven to kill this woman.
~ Dean Koontz
In addition to the garlic, verbena aftershave, coconut-scented hand sanitizer, antiperspirant, ChapStick, pee on the shoes, anger, and hatred, Frank also smelled of the particular kind of fear that had a sour edge and was called cowardice
~ Dean Koontz
If you are fearful about discovering your anger, remember that your power is buried along with it.
~ Debbie Ford
Furious, she grabbed his tie and jerked him into the apartment. "You can come inside," she said.
~ Debbie Macomber
Now I know how deep my anger can cut…and I wish to hell I didn't.
~ Debbie Macomber
Maryanne was much too furious to stand still. She paced her living room from one end to the other, her mind spitting and churning. A slow painful death was too good for Nolan Adams.
~ Debbie Macomber
Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.
~ Debbie Macomber
it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.
~ Deborah Ellis
I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.
~ Unknown
she lambasted him for driving so poorly.
~ Delia Parr
Incidentally, this is the only letter I'll send— don't think I'll turn you in, don't think for a second I'd alert the authorities, I mean, fuck them, and certainly, of course, fuck you, but above everything fuck them. I've always stood for that. Admittedly not much else.
~ Denis Johnson
I want to kick Grandma in the penis
~ Denise Mina
I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do.
~ Dennis Lehane