ANGER QUOTES III
quotations about anger
Anger arises for specific and understandable reasons, just like any other emotions, such as happiness and sadness. Emotions are an essential part of being a human being, so if your goal is to completely eliminate anger from your life, forget it! First of all, this would be an impossible task. Second, you wouldn't want to do that, even if you could, any more than you would want to eliminate love, joy, or fear. All emotions have their proper place in a man's life; the experience of emotion is what makes life rich. And there are times when anger is an appropriate reaction to events and people.
THOMAS HARBIN
Beyond Anger
Anger is nature's way of discouraging people from d**king us around.
RORY SUTHERLAND
"Google's driverless car has finally crashed. Might humans be safer?", The Spectator, March 12, 2016
If you don't know what to do when angry, you like most people, have an unfortunate tendency to make up your own interventions. This DIY approach to managing anger is counter-productive and ineffective. It only prolongs the pain and magnifies its destructive consequences. You are pouring salt in your wound.
JUSTIN LIOI
"The Misunderstood Emotion: Getting to Know Your Anger", Good Therapy, March 9, 2016
Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
"Of Hatred and Anger"
Anger supplies arms.
VIRGIL
Aeneid
A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
PROVERBS 15:1
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
THICH NHAT HANH
Savor
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
MARIO PUZO
The Godfather
We occasionally hear of "righteous anger." We mean anger that is justified by circumstances. But, in a sense, all anger is righteous. That is, all anger justifies itself in the mind of the person who feels the anger. In another sense, there is no such thing as righteous anger. For no anger can really justify itself.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Anger"
To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time. We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry, may be attempted and calmed. Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief. Thirdly, how to raise anger, or appease anger in another. For the first; there is no other way but to meditate, and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man's life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over. Seneca saith well, That anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls. The Scripture exhorteth us to possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Anger"
Anger, in general, is healthy. Just like sadness or happiness, it's a normal emotion. Where people get into trouble is when anger becomes a behavior that is physically, verbally or emotionally inappropriate.
CAROLE D. STOVALL
Jet Magazine, May 1, 2000
Men must beware that they carry their anger rather with scorn than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Anger"
We've gotten better at acting like anger doesn't exist, but it clearly still does. Letting it out, every now and then, actually is a healthy thing. May it never go too far, one way or the other. Don't hold it all the way in and don't let it all the way out, but a little toot of anger, every now and then, is a nice thing.
JASON SUDEIKIS
"Jason Sudeikis: 'A Toot Of Anger Is A Good Thing'", Contact Music, February 29, 2016
If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Comprehending the attractiveness of anger is an essential element for its healing. There is something absolutely delicious about finding fault with others and making one's own insecurities the justification for demonizing others. But rather than simply condemning anger or allowing it free rein, we can approach it with gentle inquiry. What values are being threatened? What beliefs are being jeopardized? What control is being wrested from our grasp? And conversely, how good does it feel judging others, punishing them, and relishing in revenge? If anger is delicious, we should be willing to recognize how much we take delight in threatening, haranguing, and demeaning those from whom we feel separate.
ALAN BRISKIN
"How Demagogues Turn Anger Into Collective Poison: The Middle-Finger Party", Huffington Post, March 2, 2016
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
ALEX HALEY
attributed, Guys, Let's Keep It Real!
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
The man that is dominated by Anger
Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law;
That man whom Hate doth accompany,
Becometh like unto murky darkness.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether.
CAROL TAVRIS
Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
All anger is actually a vulnerable emotion in disguise. If someone insults you, underneath your anger is pain. If your teen walks in three hours past curfew, underneath your anger is fear and worry. If someone publicly chastens you, underneath your anger is embarrassment. These vulnerable emotions are what you need to communicate, not the anger.
JONATHAN DECKER
"Your Family Expert: Managing anger to connect more and fight less", The Independent, March 1, 2016