Quotes about Being Livid

There is a certain anger; it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage — self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage — and its flame burns because the world is so unjust.

Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most.

2826. Provoke not even a patient Man too far ; extreme Sufferance when it comes to dissolve, breaks out into the most severe Revenge ; for taking Fire at last, Anger and Fury being combined into one, discharge their utmost Force at the first Blast. Irarumque omnes effundit habenas.

Anger is a brief madness.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

What is anger? A lust for revenge. What is hatred? An anger grown old.

Zeal and indignation are fervent passions.

He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

What we have named as anger on the surface is the violent outer response to our own inner powerlessness, a powerlessness connected to such a profound sense of rawness and care that it can find no proper outer body or identity or voice, or way of life to hold it. What we call anger is often simply the unwillingness to live the full measure of our fears or of our not knowing, in the face of our love for a wife, in the depth of our caring for a son, in our wanting the best, in the face of simply being alive and loving those with whom we live.

Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.

There’s no emotion more eager for vengeance than anger, and for that very reason, none less suited to the taking of vengeance.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.