Seneca the Younger Quotes

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?

When you're angry you can say something you don't mean.

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

I knew what it is to hate.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

There is a chip on my shoulder, both shoulders, yes sir.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.

I hate the word 'annoying!'

Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

My assistants will bear testimony to the fact that I am a very angry man.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.