Quotes about Anger
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
- Audre Lorde
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
- Audre Lorde
Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.
- Deepak Chopra
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
- Desmond Tutu
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
- George Eliot
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
- Anonymous
Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?
- Anonymous
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- Toni Morrison
Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.
- Winston Churchill
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
- Herbert Hoover
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville