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I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868), Ch. 8: Jo Meets ApollyonIn context
Anybody can become angry⁠—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way⁠—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Aristotle384–322 BC
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin1924–1987“Notes of a Native Son” originally in Harper’s (November 1955)
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 190
- Advice
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 7:9 (KJV)In context
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake1757–1827A Poison Tree (1794), Songs of Experience (1794), A Poison Tree, st. 1In context
- Friendship
I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.
NBNachman of Bratslav
An angry man is unfit to pray.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Prayer
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.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’⁠—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
- Forgiveness
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns1759–1796Tam o’ Shanter (1791)In context
Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890“Narrative of a Trip to Harar” (11 June 1855); published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (June 1855)