Quotes on Anger

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.

There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.