Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

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

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

I love to cry. It's great.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

I feel like I've always had a quick release.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

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.

That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.