Wrath Quotes

• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Anger, Resentment

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

  Omar Khayyam

  Light, Taverns, Temples

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press

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• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Vintage, People

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

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• Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Dragons, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Blow, Wind

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, Blessing, Men

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Flames, People, Consuming

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.18, tredition

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• Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Lasts, Said

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

  Julia Ward Howe

  God, War, Eye

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Scare

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

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• God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

  D. A. Carson

  Love Is, Emotional, People

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• To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Anger, Sins Not

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

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• There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Morning, Desire, Wake Up

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• But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

  Theodore Roethke

  Sleep, Dark, Blessing

  Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Fierce

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• The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Arrows, Blood

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• And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

  John Steinbeck

  Strength, Sound, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.191, Hamilton Books

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• My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Son, Long

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Giving, Thanks

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• The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Monsters, Great Depression

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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• Hate is the wrath of the weak.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Hate, Weak

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• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Integrity, Patriotic

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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