Quotes about Anger

“I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.”

“I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.”

“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.”

“Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.”

“I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.”

“How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?”

“Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.”

“I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.”

“Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.”

“My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.”

“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”

“Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.”

“I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.”

“If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.”

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”

“When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.”

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

“As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”