100+ Anger Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

topic: Wise, Anger, Injustice, Righteous Anger

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

topic: Anger, Men, Weather, Thunder And Lightning

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.

- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

topic: Anger, Passion, Pride, Affected

Anger is one letter short of danger.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Anger, Letters, Danger, Words Of Anger, Anger And Pain

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

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Faith, Anger, Holocaust, Lost Faith

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1967, Delphi Classics

topic: Father, Anger, Giving, Father And Son, Poignancy

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Witty, Anger, Men, Anger Inside, Queen Of England

He who angers you conquers you.

- Elizabeth Kenny

source: "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Anger, Anger Inside, Words Of Anger

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Anger, Want, Emotion, Take Control

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Depression, Anger, Thinking

the reason for anger is always fear.

- Eloise Lownsbery

source: Eloise Lownsbery (1931). “Out of the Flame”

topic: Anger, Reason

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

- ElRay L. Christiansen

topic: Anger, Sea, Decision

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

- Emily Giffin

topic: Grief, Anger, Easier

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

- Emmitt Smith

topic: Football, Anger, Frustration

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

- Epictetus

topic: Forgiveness, Spiritual, Anger, Offence, Offended You

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

- Epictetus

topic: Anger, Giving, Wish, Rage And Anger

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

- Epictetus

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Wall, Anger, Inspiration, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement

Anger is really disappointed hope.

- Erica Jong

topic: Inspirational, Anger, Disappointed

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

- Erich Fromm

source: The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

topic: Anger, Future, Past, Meaningless Life

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

- Euripides

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Anger

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

- Euripides

topic: Life, Kindness, Anger

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

- Euripides

topic: Clever, Anger, Men

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

- Fisher Stevens

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Anger, People, Rage

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger, Best Revenge, Passing It

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Revenge, Anger, Men, Best Revenge, Wounds And Scars

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Anger, Men, Self, Angry Man, Self-denial

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

- Frank Moore Colby

topic: Anger, Feelings, Particular, Sensations, No Anger

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

- Frank Moore Colby

source: Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

topic: Anger, People, Temper

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

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Anger, Together, Examination

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

- Fred Allen

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Anger, Journeys And Paths, Strolling

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

- Fred Allen

topic: Anger, Use, Argument

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Anger, Leader, Deaf

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.

- G. Frank Lawlis

topic: Anger, Blow, Emotional

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

- Gabrielle Roth

topic: Integrity, Anger, Invasion

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

- Gary Barlow

topic: Anger, Picnics, Annoying, Wasps

Anger doesn't win games.

- Gary Beban

topic: Anger, Winning, Games

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Anger, Passion, Acting, Aries Man

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Jobs, Father, Anger

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Growing Up, Anger, Class, Working Class

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Time, Anger, Dark, Dark Ages

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

- George Crabbe

source: George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.52

topic: Strong, Anger, Errors

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Jealousy, Anger, Jealous And Envy, Jealous Love

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

- George Eliot

topic: Spiritual, Country, Anger, Non Conformity

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

- George Sweeting

topic: Anger, Thinking, Bombs, Hydrogen Bomb

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

- George William Curtis

topic: Anger, Mind, Mistress, Handmaids, Delinquents

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

- George William Curtis

source: GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

topic: Anger, Men, Luxury, Indulge

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

- Gina Barreca

topic: Women, Anger, Class, Mileage, Flyers

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

- Glen Duncan

topic: Anger, Past, Weakness

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Anger, Terrible, Angry

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Mother, Anger, Divorce, Rancor, Diamond Rings

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

- Grace Slick

topic: Lying, Anger, Truth Is

Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

- Greta Christina

topic: Atheist, Selfish, Anger

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Anger, Hands, Leaving, Expressing Anger

I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.

- Griffin Jay

topic: Anger, World, Priests

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

- Hannah Arendt

source: Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Anger, Mean, Earthquakes, Misery And Suffering, Incurable Disease

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

- Hannah More

source: Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

topic: Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Anger, Inspirational Forgiveness, How To Forgive

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.

- Hannah More

topic: Anger, Character, People

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

topic: Anger, Listening, Signals, Anger Management

Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.