Quotes About Anger

writes that people with BPD who under-express anger "fear they will lose control if they express even the slightest anger, and at other times they fear that targets of even minor anger expression will retaliate.

According to the highly emotional logic of BPD, if they do something terrible to you, and you accept it without complaining or becoming upset, that shows that you care about them. But if you respond in the way that most people would, by expressing your anger or displeasure, that means that you don't really have positive feelings for them.

impulsive aggression is an impulsive, hostile, even violent reaction, triggered by immediate threats of rejection or abandonment paired with frustration.

What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . . "Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun.

He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. "Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar?

Your wife happens to work for me, so I'd say it is." I was sure Jock was going to lunge for Boy. He was much the taller and broader man and could have wrecked Boy without trying—but some tide inside him turned, like a switch going off, and he thought better of it for the moment. "You should be careful, Beryl," he said icily, without taking his eyes from Boy's face. Then he stormed away.

While we watched, he dragged over a chair and climbed on top of it to pound a small copper peg into the upper-right-hand corner of the door with the mallet, hammering away. "Every time my wife has an indiscretion I'm going to add a nail," he said to the door. I couldn't see his expression and couldn't bear to look at Cockie or Ben. "It might be the only way we'll be able to keep track.

If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at your mom. She left you alone. That wasn't right.

May a cat eat him and may the devil eat the cat

I have a right to be angry, to show it and to use it as a motivational foundation for my struggle, just as I have a right to love and to express my love to the world and to use it as a motivational foundation for my struggle because I live in history at a time of possibility and not of determinism.

Amor, então, também, acaba? Não, que eu saiba. O que eu sei é que se transforma numa matéria-prima que a vida se encarrega de transformar em raiva. (Ou em rima)

Stupid weirdo! Liar! You filthy cat-boy-!!

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

With insecure attachments, "a child unwittingly memorizes the precise lesson of that troubled relationship: that love is suffocation, that anger is terrifying, that dependence is humiliating, or one of a million crippling variations.

mother of a young daughter and son herself, she says, "I understood from a young age that there was nothing I could do to satisfy my mother. She was totally self-absorbed, a narcissist, and she was never able to see me as anything but a projection of herself. And the anger, meanness, and disappointment which began inside of her simply radiated out toward me.

As Adrienne Rich so acutely observed, "It is hard to write about my own mother. Whatever I do write, it is my story I am telling, my version of the past. If she were to tell her own story, other landscapes would be revealed. But in my landscape or hers, there would be old, smoldering patches of deep-burning anger.

By George, the next time he found himself on the road all alone late at night, he was going to whistle along to every damn song on the radio. "That'll show them," he snarled, though he had no idea who he'd be showing nor why he nearly tore the knob off when he shut off the radio.

For other women that kind of intimacy—the physical, mental and emotional closeness to a man, a lover—was something they took for granted. But she would never travel through life with a man she loved and who loved her in return. Out of nowhere, a yearning ache of loss welled up inside her. A sense of barren hopelessness that panicked and angered her.

At last you realise that a man is not an equal, but an alien force, bent on destruction when he is aroused to anger.

Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything," said Sheriff Red Jetty. "It can just ruin a day.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Come down and fight," snarled the Hyena angrily. "Thief and scavenger yourself!

Most kids are never told about one of life's most effective weapons: when to get pissed as hell. Show it. And then mean it.

Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured." – DEUTERONOMY 31:17