Expressing Anger Quotes

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Monsters, Self Loathing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Expressing anger is necessary.

  Jenny Holzer

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

  Evan Esar

  Anger, Feelings, Mind

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• I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

  Woody Allen

  Grows, I Can, Tumors

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

  Cato the Elder

  Educational, Anger, Eye

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• A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

  William Walton

  Forgiveness, Bees, Grudge

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• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Hurt, Fear, Grief

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Anger, Hands, Leaving

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• If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Divorce, Responsibility

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• When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Anger, Writing

  "Alanis Morissette: 'I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation'" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

  Margarethe von Trotta

  Violence, Favors, Crime

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

  Libba Bray

  Want, Roles, Accepting

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• I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Later In Life, Aftermath

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• Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

  Sara Ahmed

  People, Feminist, Joy

  Sara Ahmed (2010). “The Promise of Happiness”, p.65, Duke University Press

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• When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Anger, Men

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• Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

  Jane Fonda

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

  Courtney Love

  People, Culture, Sexuality

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

  Ellen Barkin

  Issues, Film, Intimacy

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

  Alanis Morissette

  Moving, Two, Pills

  "The Hot Seat: Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.timeout.com. August 19, 2012.

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