Anger

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Anger is a prelude to courage. Eric Hoffer

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. Joan Rivers, Still Talking (Reader's Digest, July 1993)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.  - Seneca

He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny (1886-1952) Nurse

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. Japanese proverb

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,  Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride"

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard (1839-1898) Educator

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. Stanley Horowitz

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats Memoirs

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher

Someone has said, "He is a real match head"

Speak when you're angry--and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Henry Ward Beecher

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold