Quotes About Anger And Regret

#1. And once I opened up all that real estate where before I'd been holding anger and regret, I found a lot of things were simpler than I'd made them.

Jess Lourey

#2. The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it - anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.

Charles F. Glassman

#4. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The wolf who wins is the wolf you feed. The evil wolf feeds on anger, guilt, sorrow, lies, and regret. The good wolf needs a diet of love and honesty, spiced up with big spoonfuls of compassion and faith. So if you want the good wolf to win, you're going to have to starve the other one.

Deborah Harkness

#6. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.

Colm Toibin

#7. Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Julie Garwood

#8. Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.

Judy Tatelbaum

#9. You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. Anger, regret, resentment, blame, worry, and guilt all lead to one place: fear. Don't let that fear stand in the way of recognizing your true worth.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.

Mark Kirk

#12. There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

Lawrence James

#14. Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

Ian Fleming

#15. Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason - in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe's life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

J.R. Ward

#16. Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.

Natalie Valdes

#17. We lie together under the duvet, arms around each other. It's hard to remember what we used to fight about. The former anger is gone, and with it that edgy, jealous lust we used to have for each other. What's left is fondness, and regret. A diminuendo.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.

Sam Harris

#20. see, when I'm not paying attention to my barriers, I can glimpse other people's thoughts. I catch them like lingering aftertastes or smells they leave in their wake: bitter envy, coppery anger, sour regret, the foul miasma of malice and cruelty.

Jason Heller

#21. When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.

Charles F. Glassman

#22. The elimination diet:
Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.
Then watch your health, and life, improve.

Charles F. Glassman

#23. Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

Mary Alice Monroe

#24. Anger begins with madness and ends with regret

Susie Tate

#25. Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Nhat Hanh

#26. You have to let go of those feelings, Ra. Anger, fear, regret. It's the only way you can forgive yourself and love again.

Winna Efendi

#27. Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.

Mary Doria Russell

#28. Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him gone, and welcome him heartily when he reappears. Anger was so much easier than hurt, or heartache, or regret, so anger it was. Welcome my old friend.

Julia Kent

#30. Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

Bryan Reardon

#31. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards