Angry Quotes

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

~ Evelyn Glennie

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

~ Nick Clegg

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

~ Johnny Depp

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

~ Stephen Hawking

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

~ Sigmund Freud

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

~ Richard M. Nixon

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

~ Sydney J. Harris

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

~ Julia Margaret Cameron

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

~ Tim Gunn

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

~ Joel Osteen

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

~ Tacitus

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

~ P. J. O'rourke

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

~ Indra Nooyi

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

~ Bruce Springsteen

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

~ Abdul Qadeer Khan

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

~ Rick Wakeman

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

~ Margaret Smith

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Don't eat because you're angry, bored, sad, or stressed.

~ John Rampton

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

~ Viggo Mortensen

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

~ Jim Allchin

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

~ Sienna Miller

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

~ Ron Chernow

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

~ Taylor Mali

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

~ Eva Mendes

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

~ Mark Twain

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

~ Thomas Jefferson

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

~ Martin Luther

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

~ Grace Kelly

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

~ Richard M. Nixon

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

~ Thomas Fuller

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

~ Saint Francis De Sales

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

~ Alfred A. Montapert

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

~ Bede Jarrett

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

~ Lillian Hellman

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

~ William Butler Yeats

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca