Anger Quotes

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

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.

I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

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

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.