Emily Giffin Quotes

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.