Quotes About Anger

I cried out to him an angry petition for rescue. I doubted him and needed him at the same time.

It's convenient for us to think that the nasty emotions, hate and anger, can adhere to the lower orders, as if they owned them by right. So that leaves us, not surprisingly, to lay claim to love and joy and all those highsouled things.' He'd tried to protest, but she'd cut him short with a gesture. 'They love, the stupid and the dull and the crude, quite as strongly as we do. They just can't dress their emotions up in pretty words the way we do.

a man in whom violence boiled below the surface in much the same way that fresh-poured polenta waited for the chance to burn the mouth of anyone who tried to eat it.

when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?

At home, my mother had known how to suffocate my dad's anger by growing silent, a low, unwavering flame of contempt that sucked all the oxygen out of the room and made everything he said and did seem ridiculous.

Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I'm not aiming to knock her out. I'm aiming to knock off her fucking head.

But after eating his one-thousandth sinner, Bob became prideful of his accomplishments, and that angered God." "Why would that anger God?" "This was the Old Testament. God got pissed off a lot. Didn't you ever read Job?

What happens to rage deferred? It explodes. It explodes in spectacular fashion.

You're sick in the head.

What if I brought you éclairs?" Herb's anger subsided a tiny bit. "Did you bring éclairs?" "No. Because I know you don't have the will power to fight your diabetes on your own." The anger returned. "I don't have diabetes." "That's the diabetes talking. I can smell your blood sugar from here. Smells like Butterfingers." The

You act like you have a saggy diaper that leaks." "Maybe you need to take your Shut-The-Hell-Up pill.

Don't get angry, Porky." Harry grinned.

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do you?

Temper [is] a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

Satan uses any means, ethical or unethical, to distract us from trusting in God, drawing us away to trust in ourselves by moving us into fear, into anger, into pride.

We already have medications such as Substance P receptor antagonists, and the drug aprepitant (a medication currently used to treat nausea), which should, if one can generalize from the animal data, reduce angry irritability (see Chapter 4

It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.

She knew what hate was, had heard of the things hate could cause people to do, but had never heard hate spoken so clearly, had never heard it directed at her. Fear threatened to paralyze her, but Kira remembered her father's calm face, her mother's determination, and let some anger build in her to help her think.

Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

If trading (or any other job or endeavor) is a source of anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, or anger, something is wrong—even if you are successful in a conventional sense

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Now, listen. My old man's coming back any minute, and if SHE catches you here, she's gonna wanna kick your ass!