“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
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.
“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”
“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.”
“When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'”
“I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“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.”
“Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.”
“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”
“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.”
“When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.”
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”