Rage Quotes

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. (Plutarch)

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

André Maurois

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Zhu Rongji

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

George Stephenson

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James Baldwin

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

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. (William Butler Yeats)

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song.

William Butler Yeats

A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

William Blake

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Grace Paley

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Paul Tillich

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

Augusten Burroughs

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

Helen Fisher

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

Fisher Stevens

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. (Leslie Fiedler)

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

José Martí

The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

Rollo May

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

John Adams

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Alain de Botton

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