Quotes about anger
81 quotes from 64 people
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Teachings on Love (2005) Full Circle PublishingLook not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 182Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
E. W. Howe1853–1937E.W. Howe’s Monthly January, 1912.
David Hume1711–1776A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 2: Of the passions, Part 1, Section 4Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928)When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith (February 21, 1825); reported in Paul L. Ford, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson vol. 10 (1899), p. 341.Where it concerns himself,
Who’s angry at a slander makes it true.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), Act III, scene i
Robert Jordan1948–2007New Spring (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963)We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
