“I inherited hunger, popped jaw, all teeth, & father taught me how to feast.”— Kemi Alabi, kwelijournal.org
“i say yes ‘you were angry about your body’ i am angry about my body i am angry about the money it eats and eats with its bad organs / the body is with organs and i do believe that / the body is also with labor and rarely paid.”— Liz Bowen, dreampoppress.net
“I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“I am not afraid of an argument. Get emotional. Get angry. Spit language venom. Be unrelenting and cruel with your words if you feel you have to be. Because above all else I am terrified of the silence. Of things becoming so passionless between us there is no longer anything left worth fighting for.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Sink in anger, fountains forming, spills like thunder to what we’re holding. Sleep forever now, my darling. I won’t dwell on heaven’s calling.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”— Mark Twain, goodreads.com
“Just because he hates himself, does not mean pouring more of your love will fix him. You will only walk away emptier.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”— Euripides, amazon.com
“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”— Edward Abbey, amazon.com
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”— Ambrose Bierce, goodreads.com
“You’re gonna be angry. You’re gonna be angry because you cared.”— Daren Colbert, darencolbert.tumblr.com
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”— Joan Borysenko, amazon.com