Anger

Anger is a common emotional response to real or imagined threats or harm to oneself or others.

Quotes

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?
  • Marcus Aurelius

• When a man gets angry he falls down.
  • Bhagwad Gita

• In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
  • Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, chapter 1. (Second novel of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).

• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
  • Alfred Adler

• As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ·
  • Akhenaton

• To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. ·
  • Aristotle

• Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
  • Akhenaton

• Iratus semplar plus putat posse facere quam possit.
  • The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
  • Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolations

• Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
  • William Rounseville Alger

• Anyone can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy.
  • Aristotle

• Ira furor brevis est.'
  Anger is a brief madness.
  • Horace, Epistles, I. ii. 62

• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
  • Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1679)

• Anger is like ruin,It breaks itself upon which it falls.
  • Francis Bacon

• Hatred is self-punishment.
  • Hosea Ballou

• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
  • Honoré de Balzac

• When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
  • Bhagavad Gita

• I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
  • Thich Nhat Hanh

• 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.
• William Blake

• Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
  • H. G. Bohn

• Your anger is a gift.
  • Zack de la Rocha

• When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
  • H. Jackson Brown Jr

• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
  • Buddha

• Anger is like holding onto a red hot coal with the intent to throw it at somebody else. You are the one who gets burned.
  • Buddha

• Dangers by being despised grow great.
  • Edmund Burke, Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 1792

• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
  • Cato the Elder

• Hatred is inveterate anger.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• When anger rises, think of the consequences.
  • Confucius

• Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
  • William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

• For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is an old rule.
  • Dhammapada

• He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
  • Dhammapada

• Beware the fury of a patient man.
  • John Dryden

• Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
  • Thomas Fuller, ‘Holy State’, bk. III. 8

• To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
  • Tryon Edwards

• Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
  • Epictetus

• Remember to not only say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  • Benjamin Franklin

• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
  • Haliburton

• Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • Lord Halifax

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
  • Horace

• Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
  • Matthew Henry

• Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
  • Robert Green Ingersoll

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
  • Walter Savage Landor

• From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
  • Captain Ahab to Moby-Dick in Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
  • Publilius Syrus

• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • Seneca

• When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
  • Mark Twain

• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
  • Daniel Webster

• If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost: you can still call him vile names.
  • Elbert Hubbard

• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angrey.
  • Henry Ward Beecher

• Anger is like cancer, It wont stop until it consumes every last bit of you
  • Curtis Watkins

• When you're pushed, killing is easy as breathing
  • Rambo, Rambo 4

• Anger is a natural response to perceived disrespect for our inate rights.
  • Fletcher

• There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Daily Express, 29th October 2008

From the Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

• An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
  • Elias Lyman Magoon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 13.

• He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 13.

• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after.
  • Jonathan Swift, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 13.

• If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
  • Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 13.

• The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
  • Joseph Hall, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 14.

• There was a man here last night — you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name — who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings.
  • Dwight L. Moody, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 14.

• When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
  • Plutarch, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 14.

• The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.
  • C. C. Colton, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 14.

Anonymous

• Anger does nobody good, but patience is the father of kindness

• Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

• Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
  • Malabar Proverb

• Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments

• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  • Chinese proverb

• My passions flare, I weep in sadness, wallow in despair, my passions change, anger reigns, now all lie in fear.

• Anger is an energy—so channel it!