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Quotes About Rage

The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.
~ Philip Carlo
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
~ Pierre Corneille
With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.
~ Tim Commerford
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
~ Anne Lamott
'Red Lanterns' is obviously about rage, but more it's about how rage affects people - alien and human. I'll be getting into the characters of some of those insane Red Lanterns whom we've generally only seen spitting vomit in the background.
~ Peter Milligan
Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing.
~ Jon Krakauer
Ambiguity vanishes from the fanatic's worldview; a narcissistic sense of self-assurance displaces all doubt. A delicious rage quickens his pulse, fueled by the sins and shortcomings of lesser mortals, who are soiling the world wherever he looks. His perspective narrows until the last remnants of proportion are shed from his life. Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture.
~ Jon Krakauer
The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.)
~ Jonathan Franzen
Rage is properly the title of Homer's poem, and his audience may have known it by that name, not Iliad .
~ Jonathan Shay
Homer uses the word menis for Achilles only in connection with the wrong done to him by Agamemnon, and never in connection with his berserk rage at Hektor for killing his friend Patroklos. I prefer indignant rage as a translation of menis , because I can hear the word dignity hidden in the world indignant . It is the kind of rage arising from social betrayal that impairs a person's dignity through violation of what's right.
~ Jonathan Shay
Fighting spirit, a ringing term that broadly refers to a soldier's readiness to move in on any enemy rather than flee or freeze, is essential for survival in combat...however, the folk culture of the American military, especially during the Vietnam War, merged fighting spirit with being berserk. Leadership beliefs encouraged the conversion of grief into berserk rage as a militarily desirable consequence.
~ Jonathan Shay
Men become mothers to one another in combat. The grief and rage that they experience when the special comrade is killed appears virtually identical to that of a child suddenly orphaned, and they feel that the mother within them has died with the friend.
~ Jonathan Shay
the emergence of rage out of intense grief is a biological universal and that long-term obstruction of grief and failure to communalize grief and can lock a person in chronic rage.
~ Jonathan Shay
The war is over, Diocletian. Win or lose, Horus has damned us all. Mankind will share in his ignorance until the last man or woman draws the species' last breath. The warp will forever be a cancer in the heart of all humans. The Imperium may last a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten thousand. But it will fall, Diocletian. It will fall. The shining path is lost to us. Now we rage against the dying of the light.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Don't fear the dark places in your mind, otherwise rage will blacken your sight.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.
~ Aberjhani
Poetry is a place where both grief and grace can live, where rage can be explored and examined, not simply exploited.
~ Ada Limón
It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.
~ Adam Phillips
The minister in our church: He spoke in a way that said there was a rage inside religion.
~ Adrienne Kennedy
no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
Humor I think of as the outward sign of the ability to look at events and situations from more than one point of view. It is this gift that keeps us all from living in a perpetual rage.
~ Quentin Crisp
Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
~ Quentin Crisp