ANGER QUOTES VII

quotations about anger

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Anger"

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Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

CHRIS ABANI

Graceland

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Anger is simply our way of reminding ourselves that we have a problem that needs attention.

FREDERIC LUSKIN

Forgive for Good


Anger comes sometimes upon us, but we go oftener to it, and, instead of rejecting it, we invite it: Yet it is a vice that carries with it neither pleasure nor profit, neither honour nor security.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

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Anger can sometimes just be the loudest thing in the room. If there are other issues going on (spoiler alert: there are almost always other issues going on), these can be conveniently drowned out by the destructiveness and imperativeness of the anger. I say "conveniently" because anger is often the easiest emotion to notice and to deal with. It's also perhaps the scariest.

JUSTIN LIOI

"The Misunderstood Emotion: Getting to Know Your Anger", Good Therapy, March 9, 2016


To contain anger from mischief, though it take hold of a man, there be two things, whereof you must have special caution. The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that, makes him not fit for society. The other, that you do not peremptorily break off, in any business, in a fit of anger; but howsoever you show bitterness, do not act anything, that is not revocable.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Anger", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

ANNE BRADSTREET

Meditations Divine and Moral

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When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way; the man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

R. SAVAGE

attributed, Day's Collacon


When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

THICH NHAT HANH

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