Anger Quotes - page 4

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. (Steven Wright)
We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody. View quote
Ted Cruz
The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger. View quote
Thomas Schelling
Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally." View quote
Jeff Buckley
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present-they are real. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better. View quote
Yanni
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger? View quote
Thiruvalluvar
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead: Those who are free from anger are free from death. (Thiruvalluvar)
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. View quote
Joan Rivers
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed. View quote
Richard Bach
The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger. View quote
Seneca the Elder
Said I, in scorn all burning hot, In rage and anger high, "You ignominious idiot, Those wings are made to fly!" View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Anger - use it, but don't lose it! View quote
Mr. T
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth. View quote
Leigh Brackett
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. View quote
Nhat Hanh
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates. (Nhat Hanh)
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. View quote
Nhat Hanh
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness. View quote
Nhat Hanh
When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. View quote
Nhat Hanh