An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device configured to fix the toner image to the sheet by heat; a discharge tray onto which the sheet to which the toner image has been fixed by the fixing device is discharged; a discharge device configured to convey the sheet so as to discharge the sheet onto the discharge tray; and a controller configured to temporarily stop the discharge device conveying the sheet while the sheet is being discharged by the discharge device and to resume the discharge device conveying the sheet after a predetermined stop time has elapsed, the controller controls the discharge device such that the conveyance torque of the discharge device at a time of resuming the discharge device conveying the sheet is larger than the conveyance torque of the discharge device before temporarily stopping the discharge device conveying the sheet.