Quotable Quotes About Anger

Author: Compiled by: Alysa Cummings

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O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

You're a bad habit. I want to kick you...hard.

Anita Liberty

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Laszlo Kotro-Kosztandi

I used to think I was most afraid of other people's anger. Now I think I'm more afraid of my own.

SARK

We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Leo Buscaglia

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

I sit in the throne of argument
and am cloaked in the robe of anger.
I hold a scepter made of the finest aggravation
and live in the Palace of Injustice...

Anita Liberty

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Horace

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Bobby Hull

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

When angry count four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Dylan Thomas

Get mad, then get over it.

Colin Powell

Who will make the pain go away?

Audre Lorde

Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger causes suffering.
Violence causes suffering.
All keep us from happiness.
To know these things,
Is to be on the road to paradise.

Thich Giac Thanh

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.

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

...I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.