I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.
Copy Quote View & ShareWherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Copy Quote View & ShareLet there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
Copy Quote View & ShareDeep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Copy Quote View & ShareQuite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Copy Quote View & ShareDenial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
Copy Quote View & ShareFreedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Copy Quote View & ShareDisgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
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