“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.”
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.
“Hatred is inveterate anger.”
“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.”
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
“I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.”
“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.”
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
“I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.”
“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.”
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
“Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.”
“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.”
“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.”
“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”