Quotes About Emotion

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

Anger assists hands however weak.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

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

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Anger without power is folly.

It loves more readily than it hates.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.