Anger Quotes - Page 27

• I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.

  Griffin Jay

  World, Priests, Dread

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• I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

  Mason Cooley

  Father, Grief, Son

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• And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Brother, Ezekiel

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Envy, Failing, Ifs

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.183, Northwestern University Press

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• At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Needs, Nonviolent Communication, Fulfilled

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• I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Self, Resentment

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Hands, Empowerment

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• If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

  Nhat Hanh

  Years, May, Calm

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions”, p.11, Penguin

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• Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Littles, Next, Emotion

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality”, p.167, Nilgiri Press

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• There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Enemy, Emotion, Vicious

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• To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

  Maya Angelou

  Soil, Injustice, Should

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• In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

  Catherine Ingram

  Faces, Response, Tenderness

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• Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Long, Should

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• Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

  Agatha Christie

  Safety, Doe, Bark

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Animal, Levels, Littles

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Envy, Soul

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• Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Meanness

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• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Men, Organization

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• The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Real, Stubborn

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• I have a black look I do not
  like. It is a mask I try on.
  I migrate toward it and its frog
  sits on my lips and defecates.

  Anne Sexton

  Black, Trying, Frogs

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, People, Strings

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

  Cullen Hightower

  Way, Get Ahead

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• What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Military, War

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Greek, Ships

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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