Browse our selection of anger quotes that inspire reflection, understanding, and growth as you learn to harness the strength of your emotions.
From the earliest days of humanity to the modern world, anger has played a significant role in shaping our actions and interactions. It is a human nature emotions; a natural response to perceived threats, injustice, or frustration.
Often seen as a double–edged sword, it can be a powerful force for change, motivating us to doing a good thing or protect our well–being. However, if left unchecked, it can also lead to destructive consequences, affecting our relationships, mental health, and well–being.
There is a rich tapestry of anger quotes has emerged out there, capturing the essence of this emotion in beautifully crafted words. The quotes come from various source; from influential philosophers and revered spiritual leaders to beloved authors and psychologists.
Whether you seek comfort during moments of frustration or to gain control over your emotions, these words will resonate with you. Join us as we delve into the world of 100 anger quotes.
Let them guide you towards emotional growth, self–awareness, and self–discovery.
Positive anger quotes
Find inspiration and learn to channel emotions positively with our selection of anger quotes.
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
Jonathan Tropper
Anger is an energy that can be used for positive change.
Russell Eric Dobda
Let us not ruminate on lost cases, creating imaginary scenarios of spite and revenge. Let us honor our valuable mental time, follow a positive road instead, and dump barren and gnawing resentments and destructive anger.
Erik Pevernagie
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Joan D. Chittister
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Emotional anger quotes
Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.
Wayne Dyer
It’s [anger] like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
G. Frank Lawlis
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Joel Osteen
Anger expressed in a healthy and positive way means that we channel emotional anger towards resolution not attack.
Byron R. Pulsifer
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
Thoughts that are powered by fear will cause feelings of anxiety, anger or frustration, which will manifest into your life and create negative or bad experiences.
Joe Hinchliffe
Identifying the true root causes of your anger can take a lot of courage. No one likes to admit that they are responsible for their own negative behaviors.
Philip Johnson
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
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
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior.
Andrew Solomon
Relationship anger quotes
Do not let your love be a total infatuation. Do not let your anger be destruction.
Umar ibn al–Khattab RA
Forgiveness is the key to unlocking all the anger and hurt, the emptiness and darkness within. To unleash love, joy, fulfillment, and light inside. Why did I wait so long? I could’ve been feeling like this all along, you say to yourself.
Zaneta Beverford
Mad cause he aint like me… Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.
Drake
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
Shannon L. Alder
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Joyce Brothers
I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
Brandon Sanderson
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.
Shannon L. Alder
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Euripides
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
Jane Austen
Deep anger quotes
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George Lucas
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
Bertrand Russell
A man deep–wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
George Eliot
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
J.K. Rowling
For some people, feelings of anger can be quite frightening, so they seek to suppress these emotions in order to avoid conflict.
Paul Gilbert, PhD
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de Beauvoir
Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry–at someone else or at herself–which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
Haruki Murakami
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Love anger quotes
Delve into this section of love anger quotes that resonate with your soul, offering solace and guidance during tough times in your love life journey.
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
Joan Lunden
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Margaret Mitchell
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Edward Abbey
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Athol Fugard
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
Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
Shannon L. Alder
Darkness… When everything that you know and love… is taken from you so harshly… all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge… and no one can save you.
Orochimaru
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran
Frustration anger quotes
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
Henri Nouwen
What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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
Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling – I don’t think it’s any of that – it’s helpless … it’s absence of control – and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that – I have no use for it whatsoever.
Toni Morrison
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
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
Roy T. Bennett
Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
Iyanla Vanzant
What is bitterly done in uncontrolled anger cannot be undone.
Vinod Varghese Antony
Whether we like to admit it or not, those of us who struggle with an unforgiving heart also carry around a tremendous amount of anger.
Brian Jones
Whatever begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Funny anger quotes
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
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right. I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, “Fuck subtle.”
Jim Butcher
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘Looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.
Tom Hanks
“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
If anger were mileage, I’d be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
Gina Barreca
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?
Shannon L. Alder
Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?
Becca Fitzpatrick
Anger quotes short
Find comfort in shared experiences through our ten short anger quotes, reminding us that we are not alone in our struggles.
The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi
The way to change others’ minds is with affection, and not anger.
Dalai Lama
The best remedy for anger is delay.
Brigham Young
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
Shannon L. Alder
I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
C.S. Lewis
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
Cherie Carter–Scott
Poetry = Anger x Imagination.
Sherman Alexie
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
Sad angry quotes
Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.
Diana Wynne Jones
There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. Rowling
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
Benjamin J. Carey
Often people that say they don’t care actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.
Shannon L. Alder
You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling – then you become sad. The energy has become inactive.
Osho
Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry.
Osho
There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.
Rachel Sontag
Let go of anger quotes
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
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Mull
If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
Marshall Rosenberger
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.
Marcus Aurelius
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Joe Klaas
Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
Francis Bacon
Put all hatred and anger aside for you will not reach the truth unless you reach for the loving spirit that resides within you.
M. Lee
The next time you feel anger rising in you, create a distance with yourself. Dissolve the ‘I’ that has got offended and you will see that all the signs of anger will disappear.
Dianne Kane
I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.
Brad Goreski
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
Final thoughts
These anger quotes have illuminated the delicate balance we must strike in managing our emotions. They have shown us that managing our anger is crucial for our mental and emotional well–being, preventing its toxic buildup from consuming us.
As we continue to learn from the wisdom of these anger quotes, may we find inner strength and resilience in the face of life’s challenges. Allow the quotes serve as a reminder in times of distress, offering guidance and perspective when anger threatens to overwhelm us.
Hope that you have found inspiration and introspection while exploring the world of anger quotes. If any of these anger quotes have struck a chord with you, share them with others who might benefit from their message.
Embrace the lessons that anger brings, and let them guide you on a path of positive change and personal growth. You have the strength within you to overcome adversity and find peace amidst the chaos, facing the storm.
Thank you for joining us on this journey through the world of anger quotes. May these words stay with you, guiding you towards a deeper understanding of yourself and others.