Quotes about Anger

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?”
 
My answer is “Because that's what love does.”  To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day wiith drool running down her chin.

My experience is the opposite.

Love is action.

One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

Beware of anger.  It is the most difficult to remove of all the
hindrances.  But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the
devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued?
Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed
                          

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all.  In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change.  But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial.  The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others. Rather, we must criticise ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Irritation, frustration, annoyance, anger, rage and eventually violence are simply a function of not getting what I want. (On a sliding scale of magnitude of intensity)

Where there is no accusation of “fault," there can be no anger.

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

Beware of the Dark Side.  Anger, Fear, Agression.  The Dark Side of the Force are they.  Easily they flow.  Quick to join you in a fight.  If once you start down the Dark Path, forever will it dominate your destiny.  Consume you it will.

Decisions made in anger can yeild a lifetime of regret.

Can you accept the moments of anger and fear as guests,
be willing to receive them with kindness without
feeling obliged to serve them a five-course meal?

Bitterness is like cancer.
It eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire.
It burns it all clean.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your
egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
-Jean Toomer, poet and novelist
(1894-1967)

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ”

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ”

You can't sustain [anger].  You become bitter.  Nothing's going to change.  Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up the murderous internal pitch, does lie in every man.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Jonathon Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a fine life indeed.