“Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn.”— Charlotte Mew, amazon.com
“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. ‘Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire’ – that’s the truth.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com
“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“Beware of the quiet kind people like me, we are filled with rage of being used so i might spit fire and turn with no regret if you do me wrong.”— Bambi, wnq-writers.com
“A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”— Ambrose Bierce, amazon.com
“In our hardships, we discover the courage not to succumb, not to retreat, but not to strike out in fear and anger.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Anger is simply energy, and it is your response to that energy that causes harm.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”— Anthony Horowitz, amazon.com
“Manipulators often try to intimidate others with aggressive language, subtle threats, or outright anger. Especially if they see you’re uncomfortable with confrontation, they will use it to quickly control you and get their way.”— Barrie Davenport, liveboldandbloom.com
“Boys are taught, sometimes with the best of intentions, to mutate their emotional suffering into anger... Despite the emergence of the metrosexual and an increase in stay-at-home dads, tough-guy stereotypes die hard. As men continue to fall behind women in college, while outpacing them four to one i…”— Andrew Reiner, nytimes.com