Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
— Othello
Quotes About Anger
Aristotle set the standard high: anyone can get angry, but to do it to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time and in the right way is not for everyone. Confucius listed not yielding to anger among three steps that bring a person near the gods. The Dalai Lama asked plainly whether anger is useful, and answered that its result is good neither for you nor for the other person.
Petrarch counted anger among five enemies of peace, along with avarice, ambition, envy and pride. Stephen Hawking gave a practical warning: people won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. Mark Twain offered a counting method, to count four when angry and to swear when very angry. Ernest Hemingway described anger leaving the way water does, washed away in the river along with any obligation. Charles Dickens gave one character the vow that angry thoughts and reproaches would never bear witness against someone, though sorrow might.
Petrarch counted anger among five enemies of peace, along with avarice, ambition, envy and pride. Stephen Hawking gave a practical warning: people won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. Mark Twain offered a counting method, to count four when angry and to swear when very angry. Ernest Hemingway described anger leaving the way water does, washed away in the river along with any obligation. Charles Dickens gave one character the vow that angry thoughts and reproaches would never bear witness against someone, though sorrow might.
He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
— The Casual Vacancy
Angry people are not always wise.
— Pride and Prejudice
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!
— David Copperfield
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
— A Farewell to Arms
You erased my famine, unpicked my anger / Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart; Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring / From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.
— Words of Paradise: Selected Poems
She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.
— Love in the Time of Cholera
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
— The Dhammapada
Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
— The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)
— The Odes of Horace
I feel an army in my fist.
— Die Räuber
one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
— The Island of Dr. Moreau
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Meditations
Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.
— The Stars, Like Dust
Her anger was rekindled.'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything, or I'll explode!'He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.
— Pot Luck
If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?
— The Misanthrope
The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
— Ethics