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Quotes About Rage

But energy must flow somewhere," his voice continued. "Where energy meets obstructions, it burns — and if energy builds up beyond what a given individual can tolerate, it demands release. Anger grows into rage, sorrow turns to despair, concern becomes obsession, and physical aches become agony. So energy can also be a curse. Like a river, it can bring life, but untamed it can unleash a raging flood of destruction.
~ Dan Millman
Our journey begins in Part One with new discoveries about the brain's emotional architecture that offer an explanation of those most baffling moments in our lives when feeling overwhelms all rationality. Understanding the interplay of brain structures that rule our moments of rage and fear—or passion and joy—reveals
~ Daniel Goleman
A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. But the monk replied with scorn, "You're nothing but a lout— I can't waste my time with the likes of you!" His very honor attacked, the samurai flew into a rage and, pulling his sword from its scabbard, yelled, "I could kill you for your impertinence.""That," the monk calmly replied, "is hell.
~ Daniel Goleman
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.
~ Robert Frost
The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
~ Lou Reed
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.
~ Neem Karoli Baba
Depression is rage spread thin.
~ George Santayana
An angry man is always a stupid man.
~ Chinua Achebe
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
Anger is a brief lunacy.
~ Horace
Anger is a momentary madness.
~ Horace
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
~ William Goffe
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
~ James A. Baldwin
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I am a giant squid of anger.
~ John Green
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
~ Alice Childress
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
~ Virgil
Re-engrav'd time after time Ever in their youthful prime My designs unchang'd remain Time may rage, but rage in vain For above Time's troubled fountains On the great Atlantic Mountains In my Golden House on high There they shine eternally
~ William Blake
The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.
~ William Carlos Williams
More enraged men have become less patient with neoliberal trade agreements; more belligerent in their critiques of feminism, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, academics, homosexuals, and the media; and more prepared to nudge the neoliberal side of the old machine consolidated in the early 1980s toward aspirational fascism.
~ William E. Connolly
If Jesus returned today we would have to crucify him quick in our own defense, to justify and preserve the civilization we have worked and suffered and died shrieking and cursing in rage and impotence and terror for two thousand years to create and perfect in mans own image; if Venus returned she would be a soiled man in a subway lavatory with a palm full of French post-cards--
~ William Faulkner