Quotes on Anger

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

For years I bore the crippling weight of anger, bitterness and resentment toward those who caused my suffering. Yet as I look back over a spiritual journey that has spanned more than three decades, I realize the same bombs that caused so much pain and suffering also brought me to a place of great healing. Those bombs led me to Jesus Christ.

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?