Top 100 Anger Is Quotes
#1. Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.
David Levithan
#2. Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.
Gina Barreca
#3. For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?
Kailash Satyarthi
#5. When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.
Lynn Coady
#6. Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.
Iyanla Vanzant
#7. Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Julia Cameron
#8. Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul.
Debasish Mridha
#9. ...detachment from anger is one part of wisdom.
Steven Saylor
#10. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
Katharine Graham
#11. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. If you cannot be compassionate to yourself, you will not be able to be compassionate to others. When we get angry, we have to produce awareness: "I am angry. Anger is in me. I am anger." That is the first thing to do.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#13. A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. I'm sorry. I really do try not to get angry. Carly says anger is a weapon, but sometimes I think it's just another cage.
Dawn Kurtagich
#16. Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.
Lynn G. Robbins
#18. Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love.
Vishwas Chavan
#19. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
Jeanne DuPrau
#20. Anger is a two-headed serpent;
one to bite whoever is holding it,
and the other to bite whoever it is thrown at.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.
Horace
#22. Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#25. God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
Neal A. Maxwell
#27. Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
Richard Baxter
#28. anger is the heart beating faster. fear is the stomach tightening and untightening. lust is blood swelling between your legs. flesh is ever-changing, flesh is self-aware.
Daniel Polansky
#29. In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
Emily Giffin
#30. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#31. To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
Sophocles
#32. Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.
Jessica Aguilar
#33. I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
Leymah Gbowee
#34. Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Seneca The Younger
#36. As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.
James Vila Blake
#37. Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#38. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#40. Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!
Rajneesh
#41. Anger is like a creeper vine that strangles the tree on which it grows
S.E. Sever
#43. Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.
Donna Lynn Hope
#44. The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
Craig Johnson
#45. Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.
Yuvaraja Dhayanithi
#46. Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Bodie Thoene
#47. Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
Lauren Oliver
#49. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VI
#50. Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful.
Debasish Mridha
#51. One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
Julian Baggini
#52. Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.
Dalai Lama
#53. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile
#55. Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
Mike Tyson
#56. My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal ...
Candace Bushnell
#57. Anger is like a fire that must be burned up into the ashes of forgiveness.
Bruce Fisher
#58. Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
Henry Cloud
#60. What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#61. My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a "symptom"? There
May Sarton
#62. Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it.
Walter Hooper
#63. The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
Mehmet Oz
#65. I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green.
Amanda Carlson
#66. One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.
Robert Galbraith
#68. Anger is a brief madness.
Horace
#69. If you think you have never been angry or that at the moment you are not an angry person then you are living in a lie. Anger is God given and everyone is an angry person.
Briggette Carlos
#71. When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
Mohsin Hamid
#72. One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#73. Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you.
Roland Merullo
#75. Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ...
Stephen Richards
#76. Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.
Winston S. Churchill
#78. Anger is like a disease.
You can catch it.
You can give it.
Margarita Engle
#79. I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.
Koren Zailckas
#81. As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#82. Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.
Neal Shusterman
#83. Our anger is a product of our insecurities.
Saru Singhal
#84. Your anger is fun and sulk is love. I shall ever love you.
M.F. Moonzajer
#85. Anger is a revenge that can never be controlled.
Nadair Desmar
#86. Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.
Susan Sullivan
#87. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D.H. Lawrence
#88. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
#89. Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out
anger is momentarily easier to cope with.
Anne Perry
#91. At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.
Joel Osteen
#92. Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".
Swami Vivekananda
#93. If the heartbeat is a vital sign of physical health, anger is the vital sign of emotional health. Anger protects the self in all relationships. It is rage that is damaging.
Sue Parker Hall
#94. The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
Andy Stanley
#96. An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.
Lucy R. Lippard
#97. Catharsis THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE TRUTH: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time.
David McRaney
#98. We lie together under the duvet, arms around each other. It's hard to remember what we used to fight about. The former anger is gone, and with it that edgy, jealous lust we used to have for each other. What's left is fondness, and regret. A diminuendo.
Margaret Atwood
#99. To win, I have to get angry. My anger is directed at the course, at attacking it and beating it.
Ingemar Stenmark
#100. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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