“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
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.
“Anger is a short madness.”
“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
“Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.”
“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”
“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
“When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.”
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”