Quotes about Anger

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?" However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." Wow!

She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.

Harriet was angry, and her face showed it. Men; when they got together they were all alike--even Peter. For a moment he and Kirk stood together on the far side of a chasm, and she hated them both.

Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.