ANGER QUOTES II
quotations about anger
An angry man is always a stupid man.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
FRANK LAWLIS
The Stress Answer: Train Your Brain to Conquer Depression and Anxiety in 45 Days
The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER
The Dance of Anger
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
EURIPIDES
Medea
If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Peace Is the Way
A good therapist once told me that you should get angry as many times a day as you visit the bathroom. I think what she meant was, first, that anger is natural. You may not like it, but it has its place and, depending on your temperament, it may be a constant in your life. She also meant that anger arrives on its own schedule and for its own purposes, and its schedule may be different from yours.
THOMAS MOORE
Dark Nights of the Soul
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
CRAIG JOHNSON
The Cold Dish
Anger is energy, and energy must be transferred into activity. Anger comes from our passions, but it becomes sin when it is destructive, either to others or to ourselves. Pent-up anger will either explode uncontrollably or eat away at our hearts and souls until it takes up all of our interior space. Unless and until we deal with our anger, there is no room in us for anything else.
G. PORTER TAYLOR
From Anger to Zion
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
If we all got angry together something might be done.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King
There is no psychological reward for anger.... Anger is debilitating. In the physiological realm, it can produce hypertension, ulcers, rashes, heart palpitations, insomnia, fatigue and even heart disease. In the phsychological sense, anger breaks down love relationships, interferes with communication, leads to guilt and depression and generally just gets in your way. You may be skeptical, since you've always heard that expressing your anger is healthier than keeping it bottled up inside of you. Yes, the expression of anger is indeed a healthier alternative than suppressing it. But there is an even healthier alternative than suppressing it--not having the anger at all. In this case you won't be confronted with the dilemma of whether to let it out or keep it in.
WAYNE W. DYER
Your Erroneous Zones
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger: the one lieth secret, as a serpent; the other chaseth, as a leopard.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
"Of Hatred and Anger"
Anger is one of the ways God protects us. Anger is, in fact, a God-given experience. We have been given a divine emotional signal in our heads that tells us when we are getting too near the edge. Like semaphore lights at a dangerous train crossing, anger tells us to pay careful attention.
PAUL MEIER & ROBERT L. WISE
Love Is a Choice
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Experience