"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Not my Daughter, you Bitch!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"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."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."
— Mark Twain

"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 - that is not easy."
— Aristotle

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
— Ambrose Bierce

""You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"
Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"
"More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy.
"Well, kind of. But you suck!""
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"
— Sherman Alexie

"Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
— Mark Twain

"Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
— William Arthur Ward

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
— Marcus Aurelius

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last."
— Greg Evans

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
— Henry Ward Beecher

"If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end."
— James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)

"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice."
— Bernhard Schlink (The Reader)

"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
— William Shakespeare

"Get mad, then get over it. "
— Colin Powell

"Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage."
— Billy Corgan

"Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different."
— Sherwood Smith (King's Shield)

"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."
— Leo Buscaglia

"Anger is the prelude to courage."
— Eric Hoffer

"The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love."
— Euripides (Medea and Other Plays)

"Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face."
— Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim)

"And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

"Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting."
— Stephen King (La Milla Verde / the Green Mile)

"Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong."
— Henry James

"His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold."
— John Christopher (The Pool of Fire)

"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
— The Dhammapada

"At the pit's bottom is no anger."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness)