“My mother’s psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”
― Meg Cabot, Darkest Hour
“Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless … it’s absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.”
[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Gautama Buddha
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
“Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“When introverts are in conflict with each other…it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!”
― Adam S. McHugh
“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, Fallout
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium