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Quotes About Rage

You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces.
~ Arthur Miller
He remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
~ Arundhati Roy
What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.
~ Arundhati Roy
The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. It was this that grew inside her, and eventually led her to love by night the man her children loved
~ Arundhati Roy
An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.
~ Arundhati Roy
I want to write rage but all that comes is sadness. We have been sad long enough to make this earth either weep or grow fertile. I am an anachronism, a sport, like the bee that was never meant to fly. Science said so. I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it.
~ Audre Lorde
Hey Ma, how come you never hit us until we were bigger'n you?" At that moment realizing I guess I never hit my kids when they were little for the same reason my father never hit me: because we were afraid that our rage at the world in which we lived might leak out to contaminate and destroy someone we loved.
~ Audre Lorde
Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.
~ Audre Lorde
On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.
~ Stephen Colbert
The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.
~ Stephen Crane
Beyond the reach of human rage A drop of hell, a touch of strange ...
~ Stephen King
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.
~ Stephen King
His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.
~ Stephen King
Despite all my rageI am still just a rat in the cage.
~ Billy Corgan
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
~ William Irwin Thompson
What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.
~ Dustin Hoffman
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Love your rage, not your cage.
~ Alan Moore
Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.
~ Jonathan Maberry
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
~ Jonathan Maberry
I kicked Beaky Nose in the nuts with the toe of my shoe, very, very hard. I have big feet and my shoes have steel toes. This is never good news for the sorry son of a bitch whose balls get in the way of my rage issues.
~ Jonathan Maberry