Welcome to our collection of Anger Quotes, where we delve into the complex and often intense emotion of anger. Anger is a universal human experience that can range from mild irritation to uncontrollable rage, and it plays a significant role in our lives. Whether you’re looking for words to express your own anger, seeking understanding and empathy for someone else’s anger, or simply curious about how some of the greatest minds throughout history have reflected on this powerful emotion, you’ve come to the right place.
On this page, we have curated a diverse selection of anger quotes that offer insights, perspectives, and wisdom from various authors, philosophers, leaders, and thinkers. These quotes explore the nature of anger, its causes, consequences, and the strategies to manage and channel it effectively. Feel free to browse through these quotes, and you can even use them to create visually appealing images with stylish fonts or incorporate them into your own writings. Let’s delve into the world of anger and its profound impact on the human experience. Now, let’s explore these thought-provoking quotes on anger below.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. Ovid
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
Hatred is inveterate anger. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Pythagoras
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen
We boil at different degrees. Clint Eastwood
If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say. Bob Marley
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. Lee Iacocca
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Thomas de Quincey
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off. Jim Lehrer
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. Grace Slick
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie Holiday
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian
When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve
Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
I am a danger to myself if I get angry. Oriana Fallaci
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. Daniel Webster
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. Ford Frick
Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. Richard M. Nixon
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. Frank Herbert
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. Akhenaton
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I’m too mature to be angry. Jesse Jackson
Getting angry doesn’t solve anything. Grace Kelly
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. Mary Garden
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publilius Syrus
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. George Herbert
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. Dick Armey
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. Bryant H. McGill
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. Edward Abbey
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. George Jean Nathan
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Booth Tarkington
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. Francis Quarles
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. James Whitcomb Riley
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. James Russell Lowell
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. Ang Lee
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
I get angry about things, then go on and work. Toni Morrison
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear. Daniel Bell
My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic. Josh Silver
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. Arthur Schopenhauer
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. Austin O’Malley
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. Charles Simmons
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Henry Ward Beecher
People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun. Philip Roth
When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan Thomas
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. James Fallows
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Thomas Jefferson
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein
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
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. Pope Paul VI
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. Edward Albert
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. Abraham Cahan
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. Sallust
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It’s not anger, it’s motivation. Roger Clemens
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. George Savile
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. William Congreve
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends. B. B. King
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well. Martin Luther
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. Mark Twain
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West
I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary. Eva Mendes
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats
There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. Wayne Dyer
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. Aristotle
A hungry man is an angry one. Buchi Emecheta
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. George William Curtis
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. Mehmet Oz
Anger is a short madness. Horace
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Wayne Dyer
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say. Jules Renard
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him. Louis L’Amour
Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. Stephen Hawking