100+ Angry Words Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

topic: Relationship, Family, Years, Angry Words

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

- Theognis of Megara

topic: Revenge, Anger, Passion, Angry Words

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.298, Penguin

topic: Girl, Air, Blood, Wintergirls, Angry Words

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

- Horace

topic: Light, Expression, Passionate, Sorrowful, Angry Words

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

- Chris Abani

source: Chris Abani (2005). “GraceLand: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

topic: Spiritual, Anger, Men, Angry Words

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

- Cecil Frances Alexander

source: Cecil Frances Alexander (1852). “Hymns for little children”, p.21

topic: Jesus, Children, Action, Angry Words

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

- Yann Martel

topic: Children, Thinking, People, Leprosy, Angry Words

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

- Glenda Millard

topic: Song, Heart, Long, I'm Sad, Angry Words

I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

- Utah Phillips

source: Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

topic: Giving Up, Gun, Knives, Angry Words

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

- Frances Wright

source: Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

topic: War, Evil, Feelings, Unwise, Backbiting

It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

- Sean Stephenson

source: Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.57, John Wiley and Sons

topic: Feel Good, Hurtful, Coincidence, Correlation, Angry Words

I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone does an unkind thing to me I feel only compassion instead of resentment. Even upon those who cause suffering I look with deep compassion, knowing the harvest of sorrow that lies in store for them. If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be overcome by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.112, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Lying, Thinking, Compassion, Angry Words

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

- Karen Armstrong

source: "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.