Quotes About Bottled Up Anger

#1. The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Adam Smith

#2. He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

Anthony Trollope

#3. Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

Novak Djokovic

#4. Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

Laura Kightlinger

#5. No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

Paul Kearney

#6. The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Salman Rushdie

#7. When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Ray Manzarek

#8. Somewhere along the way, their passion had become bottled anger. The anger had fermented into bitter hatred. Then the hatred had fed upon itself, gnawing away at them over years, even decades, until only a shell of cold iron and colder hate remained.

Jim Butcher

#9. Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.

Kate Clinton

#10. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.

Michael Monroe

#12. Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.

Scott Berkun

#13. Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

Dale Peck

#15. It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Sloane Crosley

#16. Need someone to rescue?" She interrupted him again, spitting her words out with all the rage, contempt, and anger she had bottled up inside. "I'm not a damsel in distress, and you sir, are no knight in shining double breasted, JC Penny!

Dennis Sharpe

#17. He kissed her then.
There.
In the middle of the sentence.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. I did not live in the forests. I lived in the concrete city where I could not see the sky or sunset or stars. I moved at the pace of engines and it was faster than my own breath. I became a stranger to myself and to the rhythms of the Earth.

Eve Ensler

#19. My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

Gayle Forman

#20. I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.

Isha Judd

#21. Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.

Keith Johnstone