Anger :

* Anger has that peculiar quality of isolation; like sorrow, it cuts one off, and for the time being, at least, all relationship comes to an end. Anger has the temporary strength and vitality of the isolated. 


*There is a strange despair in anger; for isolation is despair. 


*The anger of disappointment, of jealousy, of the urge to wound, gives a violent release whose pleasure is self-justification. 


*We condemn others, and that very condemnation is a justification of ourselves. 


*Without some kind of attitude, whether of self-righteousness or self-abasement, what are we? 


*We use every means to bolster ourselves up; and anger, like hate, is one of the easiest ways. 


*Simple anger, a sudden flare-up which is quickly forgotten, is one thing; but the anger that is deliberately built up, that has been brewed and that seeks to hurt and destroy, is quite another matter.


* Simple anger may have some physiological cause which can be seen and remedied; but the anger that is the outcome of a psychological cause is much more subtle and difficult to deal with. 


*Most of us do not mind being angry, we find an excuse for it. 


*Why should we not be angry when there is ill-treatment of another or of ourselves? 


*So we become righteously angry. 


*We never just say we are angry, and stop there; we go into elaborate explanations of its cause. 


*We never just say that we are jealous or bitter, but justify or explain it. 


*We ask how there can be love without jealousy, or say that someone else's actions have made us bitter, and so on. 


*It is the explanation, the verbalization, whether silent or spoken, that sustains anger, that gives it scope and depth. 


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