Seneca the Younger Quotes

I'm not a table-flipper.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Anger makes people stupid.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

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

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.