Top 100 Quotes About Rage
#1. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.
P. W. Singer
#2. Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.
Kurt Cobain
#3. I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
Anne Lamott
#4. His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think so full of anger.
George R R Martin
#5. It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.
Pearl Cleage
#6. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.
Os Guinness
#7. Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There
Margaret Atwood
#8. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.
Anna Freeman
#10. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
Larry Niven
#11. If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Green Day
#12. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...
Jennifer Estep
#13. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Louis Dudek
#15. When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'
George Takei
#16. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.
Anonymous
#17. It is that something in the soul which says, - Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of all terror and all pain.
Walt Whitman
#18. Parminder's rage crashed over her like a tidal wave, dragging Sukhvinder with it, so that she was unable to find her feet or right herself.
J.K. Rowling
#19. Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
Saul David
#20. Wow. What would you do if I said I was angry?'
'I would make fire rain from the heavens to smite your enemies with the flames of our shared rage.
Rachel Vincent
#21. In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.
Whitley Strieber
#22. I only have two reactions to bad news. Uncontrollable rage and then a sharp left turn into boiling self-hatred.
Cassandra Clare
#23. Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.
Diane Watson
#24. Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields
#26. When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
Caroline Lawrence
#27. I don't remember; I was in a rage haze. Also I was showing off, which can be at the very least embarrassingly transparent and at the very worst
Amy Poehler
#28. The Angry One sat quietly simmering. His rage burned a hole in the pit of his stomach. He'd been generous with her...and
L.R. Potter
#29. In peace alone reason was heard and merit distinguished; but in the rage of war the blind steel spared the innocent no more than the guilty.
Tacitus
#30. Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your *ss
It's the American way
Toby Keith
#31. Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.
Charles M. Blow
#32. I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardian the earth had ever known.
Jim Butcher
#33. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel
Francine Prose
#34. The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is ... beside the point.
Rich Lowry
#35. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.
Pete Townshend
#36. Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
Mason Cooley
#37. What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#38. This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must be strong, not in ourselves, but in Him. And trust that His love and His wisdom and His light will see us through.
Janette Oke
#39. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.
Dan Wells
#40. He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
Diana Gabaldon
#41. Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?
Kay Honeyman
#42. My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.
Gillian Flynn
#43. Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage
Dean Koontz
#44. I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.
Michael Savage
#45. And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn't have to be a killer.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#46. I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.
R.S. Thomas
#47. I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
John Malkovich
#48. Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
Mustafa Akyol
#49. Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him.
George R R Martin
#50. Someone screamed in rage and horror, and I realized that someone was me.
Julie Kagawa
#51. I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
Idris Elba
#52. I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
Michael Richards
#53. My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.
Ariel Sharon
#54. Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting
Sabaa Tahir
#55. Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind!
Homer
#56. Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
Ben Jonson
#57. Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.
Reese Witherspoon
#58. I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
Thom Mayne
#59. Belgium's declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the "rage of dreaming sheep" - in the words a Prussian statesman once applied to his domestic opponents.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#61. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#62. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
#63. My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
Kate Zambreno
#64. Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?
Richard Bachman
#65. It's funny, most people think that revenge is a passionate affair, driven by rage and pain. But it can't be. Feelings such as those make you weak. They overwrite thought and cause reckless impulses that lead to poor decisions.
Carrie Ryan
#66. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.
Miriam Toews
#67. Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.
Eloisa James
#68. This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.
Hillary Jordan
#69. Emotions like that -rage, hatred, grief, love- were like wildfires. They blazed out of control, impossible to stop until they burned themselves out.
Mindee Arnett
#70. While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
Edward Hall
#71. I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.
Edwin A. Abbott
#72. You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.
Norman Mailer
#73. Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
Charlie Jane Anders
#74. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.
Tom Morello
#75. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#76. We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.
Tupac Shakur
#77. There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
Erica Jong
#78. The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.
Mario Puzo
#79. I'm a ball of rage right now, James. Sitting isn't gonna do much.
Robin Benway
#80. You can't rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.
Robert Kroese
#81. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.
Anne McClintock
#82. Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.
Cesar Aira
#83. Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
Oliver Sacks
#84. The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
J.R. Moehringer
#85. What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not stay forever. Rage turns into sorrow; sorrow turns into tears; tears may fall for a long time, but then the sun comes out.
Jack Kornfield
#86. Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it.
Joe Abercrombie
#87. They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.
Elena Ferrante
#88. I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.
Alanis Morissette
#89. The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place.
Deyth Banger
#90. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Lord Byron
#91. I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.
Merrill Markoe
#92. But bear in mind your lover's wage
Is what your looking-glass can show,
And that he will turn green with rage
At all that is not pictured there.
William Butler Yeats
#93. Perception of danger, threat, or vulnerability leads us to fight or flee, which often shows up as anger, rage, anxiety, and depression.
Charles F. Glassman
#94. The music of rebellion makes you want to rage
But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age
Porcupine Tree
#95. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Tom Morello
#96. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
#97. If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
Ice-T
#98. And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
Gautama Buddha
#99. There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.
George Carlin
#100. ...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very depth of Job's commitment to God's ethical vision that makes his rage so fierce, and that will finally compel an answer from God. (pg. 133)
Ellen F. Davis
