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Quotes About Rage

Our personal demons come in many guises. We experience them as shame, as jealousy, as abandonment, as rage. They are anything that makes us so uncomfortable that we continually run away.
~ Pema Chodron
I was enraged by these heinous acts of barbarism - enraged that people who called themselves Muslims could launch an unprovoked attack on Christians or foreigners, enraged that through their vile acts these terrorists were perverting our faith, which tells us that Christians are among the people of the Book, that we should show discernment when fighting for the cause of God and not fight those who have not harmed us, that murder and suicide are grievous sins.
~ Pervez Musharraf
Many is the night I have sat by the roaring river the rain never ending them logs so green bubbling and spitting blazing in a rage no rain can staunch.
~ Peter Carey
You know how when a woman gets angry, really angry, she can reach way back into herself and find rage enough to blow any man to pieces
~ Peter Straub
A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.
~ Philip K. Dick
ferocious and meaningless screams.
~ Philip Pullman
It is Jerry's theory that the Swede is nice, that is to say passive, that is to say trying always to do the right thing, a socially controlled character who doesn't burst out, doesn't yield to rage ever. Will not have the angry quality as his liability, so doesn't get it as an asset either. According to this theory, it's the no-rage that kills him in the end. Whereas aggression is cleansing or curing.
~ Philip Roth
But war makes heroes. Herakles and Ormenion were warriors, and tey have been made immortal. Father Zeus turned them into stars in the night sky. Oniacus scowled. 'In a drunken rage Herakles clubbed his wife to death, and Ormenion sacrificed his youngest daughter in order that Poseidon might grant fair winds for his attack on Kretos.
~ David Gemmell
I would clear the table and Hugh would do the dishes, neither of us speaking and both of us wondering if this just might be the one to do it. 'I hear you guys broke up over a plastic hand,' people would say, and my rage would renew itself.
~ David Sedaris
No matter how angry I get, it always comes down to this: I'm going to leave and then what? Move in with my dad? Thirty minutes of pure rage, and when I finally spot him I realize that I've never been so happy to see anyone in my life. "There you are," I say. And when he asks where I have been, I answer honestly and tell him I was lost.
~ David Sedaris
in some sort of mad spasm of suicidal fury.
~ David Weber
We almost killed ourselves with rage. We would grow up trampling over things, tearing things down, and people would look at us and wonder why we had such violence in our hearts.
~ Dean Bakopoulos
My rage was the only thing keeping me awake, I was feeding off it in that righteous way you can if you never mention out loud the wrong you are being done.
~ Zadie Smith
To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use.
~ Zadie Smith
Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It doesn't take much to make me angry.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I'm an angry guy.
~ James Gandolfini
I was an angry kid.
~ Michael Reagan
His life flowed soundless as the sands of an hour-glass. His victims sometimes flew into a rage and made a great deal of noise, followed by a great silence; so is it in a kitchen after a fowl's neck has been wrung.
~ Honore de Balzac
Anger is a brief madness.
~ Horace
Anger is a short madness.
~ Horace
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.
~ Unknown
The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.
~ Hulk