quotations about anger
When anger walks it is strongest; let it rest and it gets weak.
EDWARD COUNSEL
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Maxims
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Fledgling
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We boil at different degrees.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Society and Solitude
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
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Anger as soon as fed is dead,
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
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Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.
HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER
The Dance of Anger
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When anger plays a dominant role in family traditions, it becomes a norm which follows a man into maturity, relationships and marriage. The effect of anger in families is usually visible in the way he relates to others, especially his spouse.
ELIZABETH BADEJO
"You can help your spouse overcome his anger", Punch, March 5, 2016
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
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Holding anger is poison. It eats u from inside. We might think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But no, hatred is a Curved Blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves!
NADIA BUARI
"Holding on to anger is poisonous", Ghana Web, March 11, 2016
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If the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions and light the lamp of affection in his heart, that it might stream out in his features and actions, he would soon discover a wide difference in his communion with the world. A kind word, an obliging action, even if it be a trifling one, has a power superior to the harp of David in calming the billows of the soul.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
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Anger is a valuable emotion, even though we tend to see it as a problem. We think of anger as destructive. But anger is actually instructive. What deems it destructive or instructive is what we do with our anger. In other words, it depends on the actions we take. When we express our needs calmly and without judgement, we show respect to others and to ourselves -- and maybe we even get our needs met.
MARGARITA TARTAKOVSKY
"How to Express Your Anger Effectively", PsychCentral, February 26, 2016
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Anger is one of the most destructive forces that men and women permit themselves to indulge. It is closely related to fear, but the conspicuous difference is that fear seems to be freezing or paralyzing in its nature, while anger is heating and consuming.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Anger"
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Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.
JAMES HOLLIS
Why Good People Do Bad Things
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A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"Could I have been any more inept?", Salon, Oct. 26, 1999
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Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I
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What we know about anger is that it inflates self-importance and builds a wall between genuine introspection and finding right action. Anger can be a useful signal, alerting us that something is amiss, but if we don't explore what truly makes us angry, anger isolates us from our heart's intelligence and our connection with others. Anger may be thrilling, but it also leaves us separate and alone.
ALAN BRISKIN
"How Demagogues Turn Anger Into Collective Poison: The Middle-Finger Party", Huffington Post, March 2, 2016
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Anger can sometimes just be the loudest thing in the room. If there are other issues going on (spoiler alert: there are almost always other issues going on), these can be conveniently drowned out by the destructiveness and imperativeness of the anger. I say "conveniently" because anger is often the easiest emotion to notice and to deal with. It's also perhaps the scariest.
JUSTIN LIOI
"The Misunderstood Emotion: Getting to Know Your Anger", Good Therapy, March 9, 2016
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
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Anger is sometimes unavoidable, as when we witness or hear of some outrageous act of injustice or cruelty. But if we must have it, let it be quick and soon over. For when it remains in us it is we who suffer, and not our adversary. It unnerves our hand, blinds our vision, impairs our judgment, and when it leaps to vengeance invariably overleaps, bringing to us regret and remorse in lieu of satisfaction.
FRANK CRANE
"Anger Poison"
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