#anger

There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping. ↗

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

#anger

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. ↗

— Richard Bach

#anger

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#dark #fear #short-sentences #experience

When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair. ↗

— Nadezhda Mandelstam

#despair #hope #anger

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they call your house, send you an email, talk to your family or discuss you with their friends and family is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#frustration #gossip #hidden-agendas #insecurity #not-caring

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#faith

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#dangerous #sincere #stupid #unless #you

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death #evil #death

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead! ↗