Quotes about Anger
if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.
- Susan May Warren
Most people's problems start as children when their parents, especially mothers, cause them to become angry.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show respect to anyone - they don't have love. They don't have God. They're angry at their mothers and disconnected from their fathers. They call good evil and evil good.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
- Toni Morrison
She was one of the few things abhorrent to him that he could touch and therefore hurt. He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires. Hating her, he could leave himself intact.
- Toni Morrison
And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.
- Toni Morrison
Every day I have to make a decision to choose faith over fear, faith over anxiety, faith over anger and doubt.
- Tony Evans
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
- Martin Luther
Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
- JM Coetzee
Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
- Jack Kerouac
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
- Thomas a Kempis
The road that gives you fulfillment, purpose, and joy as it takes you to Destiny is always peppered with jealous, envious, and angry people whose venomous darts are aimed squarely in your direction as you travel.
- Bishop TD Jakes