Top 100 Quotes About Anger
#1. I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...
Edgar Degas
#2. Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery.
Sean Williams
#3. Lila had been the water flowing over the jagged rocks of her anger & fear, smoothing them out with her infinite patience.
Vivi Andrews
#4. Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
#5. Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
Sathya Sai Baba
#6. The wolf who wins is the wolf you feed. The evil wolf feeds on anger, guilt, sorrow, lies, and regret. The good wolf needs a diet of love and honesty, spiced up with big spoonfuls of compassion and faith. So if you want the good wolf to win, you're going to have to starve the other one.
Deborah Harkness
#7. The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
Charles Krauthammer
#8. As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
Rodney King
#9. You could accomplish some truly heinous things once emotion has been tucked away. Anger
T.A. White
#10. Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
Tim Gunn
#11. I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.
George Clooney
#12. Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment.
Robert J. Crane
#13. You know, when a person is murdered, you can miss that person and put all of your anger into hating the killer, even if you don't know who the killer is. You also have the choice of forgiveness. But when someone takes her own life, she is the killer.
Sarah Ockler
#14. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding
#15. The first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#16. Survival = Anger x Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.
Sherman Alexie
#17. I don't want the ... issues between us" - raging sexual arousal fused with the red haze of the anger that licked the air - "to bleed over into our working relationship. Let's agree to stay out of each other's way as much as possible, and be polite when it's not.
Nalini Singh
#18. Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#19. The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.
Ovid
#20. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
Dalai Lama
#21. People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.
Daesung
#22. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. It's not just what you eat that matters, it's what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitterness, or any other emotional disease, it's going to shorten your life.
Rick Warren
#24. I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
Sachin Tendulkar
#25. Why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed.
"i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him.
"you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!
James Patterson
#26. Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?
Cassandra Clare
#27. Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.
William Golding
#28. People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective.
Robert Jordan
#29. Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.
Henry James
#30. In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration. You look into it, the object flies off into air, your reasons evaporate,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. Jealousy is the opposite of maintaining and growing in a relationship. Jealousy includes elements of fear, anger, suspicion, and control that have no place in a mature relationship.
Darrel Ray
#32. Anger always has a reason but love is always the answer.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
Dalai Lama
#34. A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
Jerry Spinelli
#35. I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
David Horsey
#37. Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.
Kim Harrison
#38. No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
Saint John Chrysostom
#39. We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
Dorothy Day
#40. Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'
Lionel Sosa
#41. The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
John Waters
#42. Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.
Terry Goodkind
#43. One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Solomon
#44. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
Iyanla Vanzant
#45. If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#47. Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.
Alfred Hermida
#48. Anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless
C.S. Friedman
#49. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand ... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
Neil Peart
#50. In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#51. Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#52. Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#53. All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.
Drew Fuller
#54. Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.
George W. Bush
#55. But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.
John Steinbeck
#56. So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.
Rosalind Wiseman
#57. Darkness ... When everything that you know and love ... is taken from you so harshly ... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge ... and no one can save you.
Masashi Kishimoto
#58. Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
George R R Martin
#59. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.
Colm Toibin
#60. The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#61. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday
#62. Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.
Sam Owen
#64. When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#65. For if you lessen your anger at the structures of power, you lower your love for the victims of power.
William Sloane Coffin
#66. But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief.
Aprilynne Pike
#67. Anger needed an anchor, a plug, a wall. (I am angry because of .)
Otherwise you had a beam of red feeling searching vainly through the universe. You had a heart that shot red light into space.
Karen Russell
#68. Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth.
Juan Mascaro
#69. Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
Emily Giffin
#70. Anger, in and of itself, is a good thing, within reason, but it will be your greatest enemy if you don't learn to control it!
Ali Vali
#71. Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#72. Anger is a weed...It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don't let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.
Adam Gidwitz
#73. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.
Sam Owen
#74. My anger with him had grown as the hours had passed. I'd convinced myself when he came to get me i would really give him a piece of my mind. Of course - it's easy to be brave when the object of your fear isn't holding your sore nipples hostage. ~ Livvie
C.J. Roberts
#75. The territorial anger lit his chest up like a bonfire, teeing off a blaze of power that roared in his body.
J.R. Ward
#76. If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.
Jack Kornfield
#77. Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
Robert Veninga
#78. Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.
Andrew Marr
#79. You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence ...
Swami Vivekananda
#80. As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
Neil Gaiman
#82. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
#83. I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.
Amanda Palmer
#84. Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.
Frederick Lenz
#86. If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it.
Edmund Morris
#87. why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#88. Anger doesn't have to be expressed. It is enough to know that you're angry, and know why, and not lie to yourself about it.
Robert B. Parker
#89. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
Desmond Tutu
#91. Anger can enslave us, or it can provide freedom, all depending upon how it is used.
David W. Earle
#92. If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
Ann Aguirre
#93. I will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.
I will feast on your hunger.
Caitlyn Siehl
#94. Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
Charles Kingsley
#95. The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Matthew Henry
#96. When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life ... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror ... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.
Steve Maraboli
#97. The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
Eartha Kitt
#98. Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.
Solomon
#99. I'd said I didn't always tell the truth, that I didn't handle conflict well, that anger scared me, that I was used to people just disappearing when they were mad.
Sarah Dessen
#100. Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
Ruben Papian
