Anger Quotes

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

Samuel Butle

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams, Journal, 1772

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.

P Barnum

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you.

Walt Whitman

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

Unknown

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Maggie Kuhn

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

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

Seneca

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.

Gene Hackman

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.

Jean De la Fontaine

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

A. E. Houseman

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus