Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!

I was madder than a midget with a yo-yo

It doesn't take much to make me angry.

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

The world can make you very angry.

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

Well, excuuuuuse me!

Anger's not a good emotion.

I'm a big crier. I never cry when something is painful, but I cry if things are frustrating. Like if I'm trying to do something, and I mess up over and over. If I'm playing a video game, and I can't beat a level that I've tried 10 times, I'll cry. When I was a kid, I think I cried for every practice from 2003 to the middle of 2006.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I am furious about everything.

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.

I'm an angry guy.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'

The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

Abused patience turns to fury.

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.

I am pissed off!

I wake up angry every morning and start reading [the newspapers]. Then I'm furious.