Top 465 Anger Quotes

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.
Gerry Cooney
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depressio

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Gloria Steinem
For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There’s no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.
Marti Noxon
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.
Wilfred Burchett
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there’s the nagging worry that maybe… you’re just no good.
Nina Simone
Young kids who are out there who are upset and angry, they can watch this and realize that you can speak out through your pen and not just with rage and anger, and challenge the people who are telling you things that you don’t like to hear, like ‘Hamilton’ did.
Okieriete Onaodowan
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you’re feeling festive?
Roseanne Barr
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
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
Max Lucado
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it – ‘St. Anger’ being the fire and ‘Death Magnetic’ being the phoenix.
Kirk Hammett
There’s a lot of anger in ‘Queen of Denmark,’ and that’s me getting political.
John Grant
Through my experiences, I was living with anger and hatred, which was a really bad thing for me. Then I learned how to forgive, and it freed me from hatred and helped me a lot.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
We’re not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren’t part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men – in reality and in fiction – are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
Marjorie Liu
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
Obie Trice
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Abraham Cahan
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas de Quincey
I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won’t suffer like that anymore… it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
Ellen Barkin
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
Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
Warren Farrell
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
Mickey Kaus
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
Douglas Coupland
I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of – I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me… I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.
Tim O’Brien
I receive something we might euphemistically call an ‘inappropriately hostile’ response – that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger – every time I speak on radio or television.
Mary Beard
Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest.
Corey Hawkins
Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a while.
Charles Barkley
We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at le

We are taught to believe it’s bad to be angry, or at least it’s not good. That’s not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it’s essential to get angry.
Koren Zailckas
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
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being ‘spend cash mon-nay’ rather than execute the Constitution.
Dana Loesch
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
Mike Barnicle
I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
Ellen DeGeneres
People communicate anger of course through facial expressions, but in voice, there’s a wider spectrum, like cold anger and hot anger and frustration and annoyance, and that entire spectrum is a lot clearer in the voice channel.
Rana el Kaliouby
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public’s whipsawing stages of acceptance.
Ron Fournier
We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that’s serene and tranquil and filled with love.
Jenova Chen
I’m an emotional person. Anger and frustration comes out in many ways… I’m not afraid to hug my friends that I love, and I’m not afraid to express my emotions when I’m upset.
Big Show
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
Norman Schwarzkopf
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see.
Robin Williams
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Clare Short
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
Stephen Kinzer
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 feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body… Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy’s controlling images – They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.
Jodie Evans
Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.
Mark Hunt
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It’s just figuring out what to do with it.
Sean Penn
I felt abandoned at a young age. That’s where most of my anger came from, I guess.
Claressa Shields
All through life I’ve harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
Jessica Lange
In the beginning, fighting was fun – I wasn’t concerned with the outcome. At some point, I started training out of fear and anger. I wasn’t really happy.
Forrest Griffin
I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
Willie Nelson
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
Tony Greig
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger.
Maurice Sendak
A certain amount of anger doesn’t make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
Lindsay Duncan