Top 100 Anger Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best anger quotes ever written, picked out of the full anger archive on QuoteForever. You will find Gautama Buddha, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Gordon B. Hinckley and Deepak Chopra among them.

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1

A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

2

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

3

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

4

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

5

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

6

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

7

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

8

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

9

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

10

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

11

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

12

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

13

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

14

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

15

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

16

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

17

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

18

Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

19

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

20

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

21

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

22

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

23

If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.

24

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

25

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

26

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

27

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

28

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

29

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

30

Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

31

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

32

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

33

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

34

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

35

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

36

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

37

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

38

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

39

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

40

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

41

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

42

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

43

Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

44

There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

45

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

46

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

47

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

48

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

49

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

50

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

51

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

52

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

53

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

54

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

55

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

56

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

57

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

58

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

59

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

60

Anger is a momentary madness.

61

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

62

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

63

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.

64

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

65

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

66

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

67

When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

68

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

69

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

70

If we all got angry together something might be done.

71

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

72

People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.

73

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

74

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.

75

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

76

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

77

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

78

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

79

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.

80

Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.

81

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

82

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

83

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

84

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

85

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

86

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

87

Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

88

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

89

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

90

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

91

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

92

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

93

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

94

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

95

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

96

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

97

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

98

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

99

Anger only gets in the way.

100

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

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