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Quotes About Anger

They're angry. Unstable. And no doubt armed.
~ Louise Penny
A populist feeding anger and fear is more likely to get elected.
~ Louise Penny
eventually that pain turned to bitterness, and the bitterness turned to anger, and the anger became rage. Until that rage became madness.
~ Louise Penny
Professor Robinson was revealing, not creating, the anger. The fear. And yes, perhaps even the cowardice they kept hidden away. She was like some genetic mutation awakening illnesses that would have normally lain dormant. She was the catalyst. But the potential, the sickness, was already there.
~ Louise Penny
It's too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It's revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful.
~ Louise Penny
Screw off. Leave me alone!' Now she rounded on him. 'Where're your tears? Eh? You're more dead than she is. You can't even cry. And now what? You want me to stop? It hasn't even been a day yet, and you're what? Bored with it? Not the center of the universe anymore? You want everything to go back to the way it was, like that.' Clara snapped her fingers in his face. 'You disgust me.
~ Louise Penny
But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.
~ Louise Penny
There've been times I've been mad enough to kill, and may have, had I known I would get away with it.' 'What made you that angry?' Clara was astonished. 'Betrayal, always and only betrayal.
~ Louise Penny
Our secrets make us sick because they separate us from other people. Keep us alone. Turn us into fearful, angry, bitter people. Turn us against others, and finally against ourselves.
~ Louise Penny
I'll keep it all inside; festering, rotting; but I'm really a nice person, kind, loving. "Get out of my way, you motherfucker." Oops, sorry …
~ Louise Penny
Gamache in anger. "He knew that's
~ Louise Penny
From deep inside Harriet Landers came every shriek she'd ever swallowed. All the fear, the frustrations, the anger and buried resentments. The wounds, the pain, the losses and humiliations. The times she'd been ignored, marginalized, diminished. Judged and found wanting. The parties not invited to, the boys who'd mocked her. The girls who'd left her out. All her insecurities, loneliness, hurts, and rage from birth to this, her last moment, came rushing out.
~ Louise Penny
When were these seeds of anger sown / And on what ground.
~ Louise Penny
All I'd inherit would be outrage. I don't want that. For me or my family.
~ Louise Penny
This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.
~ Loung Ung
I get mad at everyone because they are working, living. Sometimes I hate you because you're not dying. Isn't that awful?
~ Unknown
He must be aged to have good manners. Modern young men have to be angry, and that means plain rude.
~ Unknown
Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
~ Lucille Ball
and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.
~ Lucille Clifton
When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
~ Unknown
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whom they have injured they also hate.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca