Quotes about anger

It's when you feel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back. And, let me confess, you feel that way most of the time. You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And, alas, it's seldom successful.

On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control. Fear lasted a week, anger a year and resentment a lifetime, he’d held.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

"it's easier to be mad at the people you trust. Because you know they'll always love you, no matter what."

Those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.

There is a lot of anger, frustration, and misunderstanding in the peace movement. The peace movement can write very good protest letters, but they are not yet able to write a love letter. We need to learn to write a letter to the Congress or to the president of the United States that they will want to read, and not just throw away. The way you speak, the kind of understanding, the kind of language you use should not turn people off. The president is a person like any of us.

Then said a Second — "Ne'er a peevish Boy

Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy,

And He that with his hand the Vessel made

Will surely not in after Wrath destroy."

A man who gets angry at the truth will have a hard time in life, don’t you think?

Where cool heads had failed, hotheads prevailed.

A low murmur came from his audience, more frightening in its way than the fury they had shown before. Fury didn’t last. Now Lincoln was making them think. Thought was slower than anger to flower into action, but it was a hardy perennial. It did not bloom and die.

But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.