11 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Anger

Orson Scott Card quotes on anger

161. She probably knew this, intellectually. But like all other human beings, she did not always act accordingly to her understanding. She had lost too many of the people that she loved; when she felt one more of them slipping away, her response was emotional, not intellectual. [he] had come into her life as a healer, a protector. It was his job to keep her from being afraid, and now she was afraid, and she was angry at him for having failed her.

245. That's what civilized people do - they avoid circumstances that enrage them. Or if they can't avoid it, they detach.

457. You smile. Why, because you succeeded in provoking me?

495. Hatred and anger aren't rational

496. Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things

635. Rage at the death of his daughter and all the things that had gone wrong and the people who had screwed up. He needed to kill somebody, to tear them apart, only there wasn't anybody to kill.

642. He ought to have his safety glasses on, but he was too mad and it felt too good to be tearing at something

643. If he hadn't been so angry...he would have stopped and thought about it...

682. Step hated feeling such rage toward the person he loved most. And it wasn't the yearning love of young romance, but rather the kind of love that made her feel like part of his own self, so that he couldn't imagine a future without her beside him. To be so savagely angry at her was terrible

993. Something was bitterly wrong with the world, they could see that; they had all felt anger in the past, but till now something had always come between the thought and the act, and calmed them. Now, tonight, that calm was gone. They could feel it in themselves, nothing soothing their fear, nothing telling them wordlessly, all is well.

1027. He had only filled himself with anger, and he could not cease to hate just because he was asked to; not even because he wanted to