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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
-Chinese Proverb
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"Anger is not only inevitable, but it is necessary. For in its place is indifference, the worst of all human qualities."
-Anon.
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.
-Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.
-Pietro Aretino
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Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
-Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric, sect. 6, ch. 2.4.
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
-Aristotle
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
-Marcus Aurelius
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If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.
-Smiley Blanton
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Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
-Frederick Buechner
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-Frank Moore Colby, “Trials of an Encyclopedist,” vol. 1, The Colby Essays, 1926
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
-William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride"
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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."
-Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold
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"He who angers you conquers you."
-Elizabeth Kenny
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.
-Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Dance of Anger
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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
-Virgil
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What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
-Oprah Winfrey
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"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."
-William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats Memoirs
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Books about Anger
