“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.”
Anger gets a bad reputation, but it is one of the most honest emotions we have. These quotes look at rage, frustration, and righteous fury from every angle — when to let it burn, when to let it go, and what it reveals about what we actually care about. Not therapy, but sometimes close.
“I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.”
“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
“I have some anger issues.”
“I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.”
“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.”
“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.”
“President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.”
“As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.”
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”
“Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.”
“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
“He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.”
“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”