Rage Quotes

“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my head with my eyes wide open. I still don't know where I'm going; I decided I'm not crazy or alien. It's just that I'm more like one of those kids they find in remote jungles or forests []. A wolf child. And they've dragged me into this fucking schizo-culture, snarling and spitting and walking around on curled knuckles.”
― David Wojnarowicz, The Waterfront Journals

“You were the monster, but all I could see was the boy.”
― Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels

“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Benjamin

“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, Sweat

“Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.”
― Emily Andrews, The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

“As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.”
― Regena Thomashauer

“Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.

'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them too much power. Rage killed the mind, and now more than ever the mind needed to live, to find a way of rising above the mindlessness.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“There is a rage inside me that I mitigate with my constant drawing.”
― David B., Epileptic

“Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.”
― Sidney Knight, Alex

“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.”
― M.B. Wilmot, Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism

“He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
― Barry Lyga

“But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

“Rage, recover, repeat.”
― Kyle Barger

“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.”
― Herman Melville

“Now, I can understand why the appearance of a man struggling violently, as it would seem, with an airy nothing, and calling for assistance against a vision, should have appeared ludicrous. Then, so great was my rage against the mocking crowd that had I the power I would have stricken them dead where they stood.”
― Fitz-James O'Brien

“Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly, in a dumb second for the dumbest reason. That makes me mad, defensive and protective.”
― Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“Katja kneeled in the Parisian streets, shaking and weak from the pain in her head and heart. It had come a second ago—a vague vision from another decade, nearly forgotten by its sender and screaming with emotional turmoil. And only moments after she‟d fed. In the now decrepit walls of a place she once knew, she stared down at a child in despair. In the room where a man breathed his last and a young woman‟s sorrow grew, he lay weeping in a rage only the heart of all sorrow can know. Death and fear came off of him in waves as lightning shared the secret of the man inside the child—the man who would be her beginning and her end if she allowed it.”
― Amanda M. Lyons, Eyes Like Blue Fire

“One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.”
― Taylor Stevens, The Doll

“You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative.”
― Marlena De Blasi

“I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.”
― Anthony Liccione

“My Son,” Aegis stopped him in one of his tantrums. “Anger and rage are powerful. For you they are strength. They will make you stronger than many men, faster than your own horse, and they will show you things beyond your world. But you must control them. You must always be their leader. If ever, even for a moment, you let anger out of your control, it will rule you and betray you to those who would harm you.”
― Ben Tousey, Children of the Night

“I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.”
― Merrill Markoe, The Psycho Ex Game

“All this. They have all this, and what do we get? Walls and tickets and concrete and stink. Rations and hopelessness and rage. I hate them,” she said, the malice in her words like the lingering taste of a bad kiss.”
― Anna Silver, Otherborn