Maya Angelou Quotes

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I still got the nasty in me.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Bitterness is so ugly.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn't have to be sweetness and light.

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.