„Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.“
Quelle: Song of Susannah
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— Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943
Quelle: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

— Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019
On the title of her book Love (2003), in O, The Oprah Magazine (November 2003) http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200311/omag_200311_toni_b.jhtml
Kontext: It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too. I thought if I removed the word from nearly every other place in the manuscript, it could become an earned word. If I could give the word, in my very modest way, its girth and its meaning and its terrible price and its clarity at the moment when that is all there is time for, then the title does work for me.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Quelle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

— Joan Rivers American comedian, actress, and television host 1933 - 2014
As quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes (1997), p. 87

„Emotions are useless during business hours.“
— Dashiell Hammett American writer 1894 - 1961
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories

— Swami Sivananda Indian philosopher 1887 - 1963
Bliss Divine, Chapter 82, Vegetarianism, Divine Life Society, http://www.dlshq.org/books/es19.htm (circa 1959)

„I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.“
— Candace Bushnell, buch Summer and the City
Quelle: Summer and the City

— Ali Gomaa Egyptian imam 1951
"Terrorism Has No Religion" http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/terrorism-has-no-religion/0019906, The American Muslim (TAM).
— Mark Chapman American assassin 1955
Mark Chapman explaining how he felt when he committed murder http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2310873.stm

„Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.“
— Sri Chinmoy Indian writer and guru 1931 - 2007
April 27
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Kontext: Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.