Anger - Quotes & Sayings

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Marcus Aurelius

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Hillary Clinton

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Louis Nizer

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

David Horsey

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Jerry Seinfeld

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Donald Trump

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Brene Brown

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

Kathy Griffin

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Tracy Morgan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.

Kamal Haasan

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

Colin Powell

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

Carl Hiaasen

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.

Jon Katz

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Conor McGregor

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Langston Hughes

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

Dallas Willard

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Matthew Prior

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Wayne Dyer

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Trump has given voice to a widespread public feeling of alarm, frustration, and anger over the direction our country is headed. For all of that, conservatives are deeply grateful. America needed a loud, rude wake-up call. No one else has done that, and that accomplishment is huge.

Tom Tancredo

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is settled anger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

Ben Carson

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

David Lynch

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Willie Mays

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Congreve

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Ellie Goulding

Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

Ann Nocenti

A hungry man is an angry one.

Buchi Emecheta

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Gloria Steinem

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

John Dryden

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

Rupi Kaur

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

Jane Goodall

From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

Angie Thomas

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Daniel Bell

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

David D. Burns

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

Jane Goldman