Selected anger quotes

1. I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

2. Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

3. Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

4. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

5. If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it.

6. You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

7. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

8. Revenge proves its own executioner.

9. By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

10. Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

11. There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

12. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

13. My father was often angry when I was most like him.

14. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

15. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

16. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

17. Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds - and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism.

18. Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

19. There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

20. That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

21. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

22. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

23. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

24. Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

25. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

26. Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

27. Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.

28. Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

29. 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'

30. If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

31. Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

32. One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'

33. 'If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.'

34. I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

35. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

36. Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

37. I wish terrible things upon the person who just did that. [After being hit in the crotch with a size 27 Birkenstock by someone in the crowd at Warped Tour in Charlotte, NC.]

38. I'm gonna stick your head so far up your ass your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

39. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

40. And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

41. Anger: 'A wise person lets his anger die quickly for one who conquers his anger in fact conquers a brutal and timeless enemy. Anger is a short madness, and wrath, its brightest flame, is nothing less than a communion with our darkest most primitive aggressions. Remember it is easiest to destroy your anger while it is still small before it has seized your intelligence and turned your own strength against you.'

42. Anger: 'Keep your anger in check. Anger is like a fire's ember; the hotter it burns the quicker it consumes itself and those things around it. Unchecked, anger often turns into an explosion of cruelty that can forever destroy a reputation and wound the tenderness of those whom we care about.'

43. I'm going to chop up some more of you mother-fuckers. I'm going to kill as many of you as I can. I'm going to pile you up to the sky. I figure about fifty million of you.

44. You know what they say, 'There's no reason to ever hit a woman.' Shit! There's a reason to hit everybody. You just don't do it. Shit, there's a reason to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. You just don't do it. Ain't nobody above an ass-whopping.

45. What's this? Mr. Franklin's lonely. What's this 'sorry daddy?' Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a bitch? I'm gonna have to get out of this car and choke a bitch!

46. Samuel L. Jackson: YES THEY DESERVED TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!

47. 'I didn't care if the fucking Capitol tower fell on its side and rolled into the ocean with everyone in it. I have never seen such a display of hateful, selfish, self-centered fucks in my life.'

48. 'Osama Bin Laden is a fucking cunt. Imagine what it would be like to be him and wake up outside his little tent or cave and see an army getting ready to beat his ass.'

49. On the way to the movies someone called me Mr. Murder before flashing a camera in my face. It made me wanna go on a killing spree a little bit.

50. Then I thought: There sits two people who need to be taken out into a field somewhere, made to kneel in the grass, and then shot in the back of the head, execution style. Then, skinned, their hides tanned and branded with a description of their crimes. Then, their empty flesh placed high on a pike for everyone to see until they rot in the sun and rain and are pecked apart by birds and devoured by necropaghi.

51. How's your lips... 'cause they're gonna get slapped off your face!

52. 'I'm gonna fuck you up. I'm gonna dig up your dad, and shove him up your mum and drink your blood from a drinking cup, you fuck!'

53. I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

54. I'm a roman candle My head is full of flames I want to hurt him I want to give him pain And make him feel this pretty burn.

55. The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.

56. A son [Timon le Misanthrope] exemple ie denonce a ces calumniateurs diaboliques, que tous ayent a se pendre dedans le dernier chanteau de ceste lune. Ie les fourniray de licolz.

57. Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat! 69 assholes tied in a knot! Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck!

58. I will screw him in the ass.

59. It is all as of old, the empty clangour, The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page, The huckster who, mocking holy anger, Painfully paints his face with rage. : We that fight till the world is free, We have no comfort in victory; We have read each other as Cain his brother, We know each other, these slaves and we.

60. 'It makes blood shoot out of my eyes.'

61. And yet there is an anger that purifies the heart: The anger of the better against the baser part, Against the false and wicked, against the tyrant's sword, Against the enemies of love, and all that hate the Lord.

62. Tiny hurts people. When he loses his temper he goes completely out of control and his huge body becomes a lethal weapon. It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society.

63. Jesus! How much more of this cheap-jack bullshit can we be expected to take from that stupid little gunsel? Who gives a fuck if he's lonely and depressed down there in San Clemente? If there were any such thing as true justice in this world, his rancid carcass would be somewhere down around Easter Island right now, in the belly of a hammerhead shark.

64. For some reason, ... I just got so angry that I had chipped my tooth ... and just started hitting him and we didn't talk for a month after that.

65. It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

66. To conquer enemies does not render kings so illustrious, as to conquer wrath and anger. For, in the former case, the success is due to arms and soldiers; but here the trophy is simply your own, and you have no one to divide the glory of your moral wisdom. You have overcome barbarian war, overcome also Imperial wrath!

67. For princis ofte, of furious hastynesse, Wil cachche a quarrel, causeless in sentence, Ageyn folk absent, thouh ther be non offence.

68. All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.

69. Hitler: Look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger-pointing, I don't know... I was a very angry guy.

70. All I see is Rudi. I die with him, again and again. And I'll feel good in my revenge. I'm gonna fill your head with lead And I'm coming for you!

71. He should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No! panther claws should rip open his throat- that would be much too good for him! No! The huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Malaria! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.

72. His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened brain snot. Then he writhes in painful ecstasy, as if he had sugar on his rotten teeth. A very slow blab machine. An obsolete model with a non-working switch- it can't be turned off unless you cut off the electric power altogether. So I'd have to smash him in the kisser. No, I'd have to knock him unconscious. But even if he were unconscious he'd keep talking. Even if his vocal cords were sliced through, he'd keep talking like a ventriloquist. Even if his throat were cut and his head were chopped off, speech balloons would still dangle from his mouth like gases emitted by internal decay.

73. Well, I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.

74. Piss off, lout! (Spieprzaj, dziadu)

75. Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?

76. Dr. Frankenstein 'Damn your eyes!' Igor (pointing at his lazy eye) 'Too late!'

77. He jumped to the sky with anger about Hebron and the provocation of Levinger that has become such a tragedy.

78. When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia.

79. 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.

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

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

82. 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.

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

84. 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.

85. Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wet stone, Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one.

86. When he comes around. Do not tell him nothing. Do not make a sound. Cos if he knows we're there he might tear his heart out. And beat us to death with it. ~ 'All At Once'

87. Sa fureur ne va qu'a briser nos autels, Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.

88. If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved... side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness.

89. HEY! Are yall spying on my dream? I'm angry, I'm awake, and I'm coming to getcha!

90. The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, He call'd for his candle, his bell, and his book: In holy anger, and pious grief, He solemnly curs'd that rascally thief! He curs'd him at board, he curs'd him in bed, From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head! He curs'd him in sleeping, that every night He should dream of the devil, and wake in a fright; He curs'd him in eating, he curs'd him in drinking, He curs'd him in coughing, in sneezing, in winking; He curs'd him in sitting, in standing, in lying; He curs'd him in walking, in riding, in flying; He curs'd him in living, he curs'd him in dying! Never was heard such a terrible curse! But what gave rise To no little surprise, Nobody seem'd one penny the worse!

91. Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

92. Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!

93. My initial reaction is disgust. How someone can sit in that chair and say that I am a car bomber or - excuse me, a suicide bomber - is disgusting. I have seen the after-effects of a suicide bomb. I have friends that were hurt by suicide bombs. It makes me mad down to a place where I can't even think to describe. It's just repugnant.

94. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye.

95. Your Sensibilities are tempestuous - you feel Indignation at Weakness - Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred - His looks are 'lovely in terror' - yet still remember, who are his Relations.

96. Bella Swan: I hate you, Jacob Black.

97. I've been fucked from every angle there is. You could take out a slide rule and try to, like, map out the different angles and there wouldn't be one that exists that I haven't been fucked on.

98. The sky split apart in malice Stars rattled like pans on a shelf Crow shat on Buckingham Palace God pissed Himself.

99. Personally I wish the police had truncheoned the English fans to death, but I can't really say that on the record.

100. See I loved you like a sista/but you died to quick/And that's why we called U bitch, I betcha.