Anger Quotes

Beware the fury of a patient man.

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.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

Anonymous

Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

Anonymous

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Chinese Proverb

When angry count four when very angry swear.

Samuel L. Clemens

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.

William Congreve

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

Charles J. Ingersoll

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Bible

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

Michel de Montaigne

Don't get mad get even.

Robert F. Kennedy

O Indra, destroy all those lustful peoplebehaving like birds....angry onesbehaving like wolves....greedy onesbehaving like vultures....enticed ones behaving like owls..... arrogant ones behaivng like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.

Veda

Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck

Control your anger before it controls you

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Laughter is much better than anger.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain and anger have to go somewhere. If we keep stuffing them down instead of processing them, we’ll end up either turning them inward, which isn’t good, or outward, which is no better.

Lizzie Velásquez

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood, in the back of her mouth. It grew down into her stomach, where it knotted her intestines. It made her arms stiffen and her shoulders lock. It pushed against her ribs until she felt they would snap like sticks.

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.

It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Edward L. Glaeser

Whenever you are angry shut your mouth. So that you can save yourself from loosing the beloved ones.

Semere Sahlemariam

The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,

I’m not staying Archer, I can’t trust you not to hurt me again if it serves whatever purposes you decide to come up with that day. I want nothing more to do with you…with any of you. I’m done with vampires. You all have done nothing but bring me pain since I met you.

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday

I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.

[On Anger][T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits of anger and strife, has its roots in the physical constitution, and is one among the sins of the flesh.[of the spirit . . .][T]he doing our will rather than His. In relation to our fellow-men it shows itself in envy, hatred, and want of love, cold neglect or harsh judging of others.[of fear . . .]The fear of God need never hinder the faith in Him. And true faith will never hinder the practical work of cleansing.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Kristin Cashore

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.

Anthony Liccione

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

To be angry implies you care

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor."Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

But it always came back to anger.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

Neal Shusterman

Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.

A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. “If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?” Of course it stays with the giver.

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