Anger Quote by Anita Brookner

“Beings become enraged and elated Through the causes for quarrels and celebrations. [154cd] They grieve and toil, they despair, And they mutilate and slay…

— Karl Brunnholzl

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

— Chinese Proverbs

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

— Maimonides

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

— William Shakespeare

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

— Iris Murdoch

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will…

— Joanna Macy

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

— John Climacus

A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from…

— Lisa Unger

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

— Walter Scott

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…

— Abraham Lincoln

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

— William Blake