Sometimes anger doesn’t explode; it hides. It goes quiet in a marriage, a friendship, a family, and begins to poison the space between people. Psychologist Joyce Brothers warned that, “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” These quotations look at anger when it goes underground, when it flares up, and when it’s transformed into clarity, courage, and even happiness.

Anger is the seducer of thought. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~ George J. Nathan

Tremendous energy comes with anger. Do not suppress it; that would only hurt you inside. Do not express it; this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. You somehow use that tremendous energy constructively on a task that needs to be done, or in a beneficial form of exercise. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ~ Robert Ingersoll

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one. ~ Benjamin Franklin

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When I get mad, I just never give up. ~ Rene Anselmo

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

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