Anger is an emotion characterized by feelings of intense displeasure, irritation, or hostility. It is a natural and normal response to certain situations, such as feeling frustrated, threatened, or hurt. Anger can be expressed in a variety of ways, including yelling, aggression, and physical violence.
While anger can be a healthy and appropriate response to some situations, it can also become a problem if it is not managed effectively. Uncontrolled or excessive anger can harm relationships, lead to physical or verbal abuse, and even cause health problems.
Some effective ways to manage anger include deep breathing, exercise, talking to someone you trust, and using relaxation techniques such as meditation or mindfulness. It’s also important to identify and avoid triggers that can cause anger, and to practice effective communication skills to express your feelings in a constructive way.
If you find that your anger is causing problems in your life, it may be helpful to seek the guidance of a mental health professional, who can help you develop strategies for managing your emotions and improving your relationships.
Anger Quotes
1. “Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
2. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
– Ambrose Bierce
3. “Expressing anger is necessary.”
– Jenny Holzer
4. “Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.”
– Dalai Lama
5. “If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.”
– Marshall Rosenberg
6. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
– Aristotle
7. “Angry people are not always wise.”
– Jane Austen
8. “Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.”
– Proverbs 29:11
9. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
– Plato
10. “Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”
– Evan Esar
11. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”
– Deepak Chopra
13. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
– Mark Twain
14. “Get mad, then get over it.”
– Colin Powell
15. “Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.”
– Ecclesiastes 7:9
16. “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it… Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.”
– Bohdi Sanders
17. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
– Roy T. Bennett
18. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
– Buddha
19. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
– Phyllis Diller
20. “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?”
– Shannon Alder
21. “Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
– Leo Buscaglia
22. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
– Cherie Carter-Scott
23. “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
– Robert Muller
24. “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
25. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
– Confucius
26. “Being unable to control your temper is no less of an illness than being anxious or depressed, and it deserves every bit as much sympathy.”
– John Crawford
27. “I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.”
– Brad Goreski
28. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
29. “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
– Barbara De Angelis
30. “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
– Mitch Album
31. “Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
– Joan Lunden
32. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.”
– Shannon Alder
33. “A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
– William Walton
34. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
– Mark Twain
35. “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
– William Shakespeare
36. “When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can’t move forward.”
– Mary J. Blige
37. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
– Buddha
38. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.”
– William Arthur Ward
39. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
– Emily Giffin
40. “Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
– Sherman Alexie
41. “Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or destroy. You just have to make the choice.”
– Jim Butcher
42. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
– Maya Angelou
43. “The best fighter is never angry.”
– Lao Tzu
44. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
45. “The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
– Euripides
46. “Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
47. “When someone says that I’m angry it’s actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I’d write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.”
– Alanis Morissette
48. “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.”
– Patricia Briggs
49. “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
– Mark Twain
50. “Whatever begins in anger ends in shame.”
– Benjamin Franklin
51. “Angry people want you to see how powerful they are… loving people want you to see how powerful You are.”
– Chief Red Eagle
52. “You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.”
– Shannon L. Alder
53. “Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.”
– Stephen Richards
54. “Sometimes, it took seconds to control your anger, only to avoid the state of the eternal feud.”
– Toba Beta
55. “I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.”
– Deborah J. Lightfoot
56. “If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.”
– Joyce Rachelle
57. “To remove your anger, you need to remove your comfort.”
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
58. “If you are self-aware of what you are going through, you would be in a better position to understand others, and affect people around you.”
– Oscar Auliq-Ice
59. “Anger could be a gift only if it’s used wisely.”
– Dido Stargaze
60. “What is bitterly done in uncontrolled anger cannot be undone.”
– Vinod Varghese Antony
61. “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
— Yoda
62. “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
63. “There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
— Wayne Dyer
64. “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
— Thomas Jefferson
65. “Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”
— Baltasar Gracian
66. “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
67. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
— Thomas Paine
68. “When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.”
— Ram Dass
69. “People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
— Stephen Hawking
70. “Anger makes us feel so isolated.”
— Fred Rogers
71. “The smarter you get, the more you realize anger is not worth it.”
— Maxime Lagacé
72. “An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.”
— Genghis Khan
73. “One’s anger is one’s greatest enemy and one’s calmness is one’s protection.”
— Sathya Sai Baba
74. “Tears of despair can be fuel. Thunders of anger can be light.”
— Maxime Lagacé
75. “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
76. “Everyone asks how to deal with anger when it arises. No one asks how to prevent anger from arising.”
— James Pierce
77. “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
— Winston Churchill
78. “When you think you’ve been injured, apply this rule: If the community isn’t injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong.”
— Marcus Aurelius
79. “Anger: when reality and expectations don’t fit.”
– Maxime Lagacé
80. “Anger solves nothing it only puts up your blood pressure.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
81. “Anger is our unconsciousness’s fastest way to let us know that our boundaries are being stepped on.”
— Wendy Hammond
82. “Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.”
— Bree Despain
83. “To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself.”
— Buddha
84. “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”
— Eckhart Tolle
85. “Great anger and violence can never build a nation.”
— Nelson Mandela
86. “Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
— Thomas S. Monson
87. “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
88. “Once you recognize that anger brings you nothing but internal emotional stress, you are ready to move forward with a more clearly defined positive action.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
89. “In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
— Pythagoras
90. “Never be angry with something that can’t get angry with you.”
— Jack Gardner
91. “The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.”
— John Tillotson
92. “If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”
— John Steinbeck
93. “The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.”
— Dalai Lama
94. “Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
95. “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
— Solomon
96. “Anger manages everything badly.”
— Johannes Stadius
97. “Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.”
— John Climacus
98. “A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.”
— Leon Brown
99. “Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
100. “If a man be under the influence of anger, his conduct will not be correct.”
— Confucius
101. “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
— James Thurber
102. “Anger is only one letter short of danger.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
103. “The best way to deal with anger is to prevent it.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
104. “An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.”
— Publilius Syrus
105. “If you want to conquer the anger of others, live with them.”
— Epictetus
106. “An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”
— Cato the Elder
107. “Anger is a choice, not a condition.”
— Gary Chapman
108. “Anger is an energy that can be used for positive change.”
— Russell Eric Dobda
109. “Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
110. “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
— Buddha
