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.
“Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.”
“It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.”
“Anger is a short madness.”
“He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.”
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.”
“Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.”
“I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.”
“In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'”
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
“Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.”
“I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.”
“We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.”
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”