Rage Quotes

“Should we be capable of ‘forgiving or forgetting’ to be happy? If anger is too powerful and overwhelming, and we cannot tame or cage our rage, let us forget about forgiving. But if real life does not stop crying out for us, telling us to store new energy and experiences and inviting us to sort out the tools for cleaning up our boisterous interior, a new reality may start taking shape, transmitting joy, and letting us tune in with ourselves. When we are in line with the world, we can feel a new mindset has absorbed us and eventually sense what is essential in our lives.”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He never understood why people would say their vision went red from their anger. His vision was often the clearest and most colorful when he was feeling a powerful fit of rage.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“The line between anger and sadness is so thin. I had learned that fear can become rage, but rage can so easily shatter into devastation. The fractures spiderwebbed across my heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Someone begging for their humanity to be acknowledged can sound an awful lot like rage.”
― Kalen Dion

“And then I realised. I realised that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens.

That it becomes rage.

That it becomes power.

I would not die here.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The knowledge rushes up in him, choking off breath. A scream comes, tearing its way out. And then another, and another. He seizes his hair in his hands and yanks it from his head. Golden strands fall on to the bloody corpse. Patroclus, he says, Patroclus, Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only. Somewhere Odysseus is kneeling, urging food and drink. A fierce red rage comes, and he almost kills him there. But he would have to let go of me. He cannot. He holds me so tightly I can feel the faint beat of his chest, like the wings of a moth. An echo, the last bit of spirit still tethered to my body. A torment.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit acceptance that we're all participants in the oppressive patriarchal structure that create this pressing, everyday anger. Women onscreen are only allowed to be angry at one person, one wrongdoing. Something they can fix. Something that doesn't antagonize audiences too much.”
― Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

“Let it bury you. Let it consume you. Rage. Cry. Fail. Only know that when you are ready to rise from the grave, I will be here to help dig you out.”
― Katherine Macdonald, A Sword's Promise

“When you look around at your community, you may feel some disappointment, worry or apprehension at the state of affairs. You see so much suffering - neighbors arguing, countries fighting, and children being neglected. Merely wishing for everyone to experience divine life on earth will not bring it about. However, we have the capacity to make this world heaven, behinning with how we interact in the world. This is called divinely living - to carry loving-friendliness in our hearts rather than ill will. Just as we can make hell on earth, meeta practice can make heaven on earth.”
― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta

“Rage was a funny thing. You could put it away for months or even years, tucked neatly inside a drawer alongside your sorrow and your childlike love for an old TV show. You could glance at it once in a while and think, Maybe I’ll wear that today. But it was easier not to. Nothing else in the drawer matched and besides, you grew out of it years ago. Until one day, it fits again.”
― Hannah Fergesen, The Infinite Miles

“Rage on, anger will,
be it day or night,
an existence that has emptied me
of light’s vibrancy.

A walking shadow I have become.
My soul’s pockets empty of life.

I see my shadow now,
flittering closely behind me,
determined to follow my trails
into the encroaching darkness.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“They'd brought weapons and explosives and fire. And they'd brought the most dangerous things of all: desperation and rage.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“The rage in his eyes was of the raw, pure sort that only adolescents can feel. It is rage that doesn’t count the cost.”
― Stephen King

“Telling our personal stories, naming and acknowledging our experiences, it's fundamentally how human beings makes sense of our world... When we don't or can't tell us stories, they manifest in other ways. Emotions need a voice. Without it they seek out eventually.”
― Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind, The Prison Doctor Women Inside, The Prison Doctor, Quick Reads This Is Going To Hurt 4 Books Collection Set

“Last night's harsh phone call seemed to be a distant memory as we spent the day in the snow with my new fake friends, going for one last turn on the mountain while I drank boiled wine at the bottom of the ski lift at the hutte.
I honestly told Anette in the ski lift during the day what Sabrina had told me on the phone the night before, but she remained silent and didn't seem surprised for some reason.

I didn't think Anette would conspire with Betty to test me or win me.
I didn’t think they would conspire with Sabrina but perhaps I didn’t know her well enough to assume what she was capable of when jealous, mad, sad, confused or in love.
Perhaps they did not.
Everything I don't know.
I try to write here all that I know and have managed to figure out, taking a long time.
I try to share what I have been through because I am sure that others will find it useful to learn from my mistakes, faults, sins, virtues, and so on. Perhaps only my luck, good or bad, I don't know.
I could not have figured out what happened if I had not written down exactly how things unfolded in order to be able to see through it all and comprehend what really happened since I bought that Roberto Saviano book and met Sabrina.

Perhaps the women had been conspiring for one reason or another; perhaps they had not. Nonetheless, it was odd.

„Water is wet, the sky is blue, women have secrets. Who gives a f..k?” – Joe Hallenbeck

Do all men have to be natural-born and supernatural detectives like Bruce Willis in all his movies, or in The Last Boy Scout?
I'm not sure how many coincidences can fit so strangely into reality by chance, or is it all manipulation? Is it all because of the story of Eve and the snake and the apple?”
― Tomas Adam Nyapi, BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA

“We all have experienced various conditions that combine in a unique manner to cause us to act in the ways we do - from a place of either frustration, love, anger, fear or friendship. We cannot forget that we all have the seeds of loving-kindlness too. No one's heart has been hardened by these conditions to the extent that they are incapable of loving other and being kind to themselves. This is the nature of impermancence - our behaviour is subject to change.”
― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta

“Teen girls—fragile, naive, desperate to belong and to please—don’t make marks on this world. The men who erase their fatal attempts do.”
― Isobel Aislin, This Thing is Starving

“One of my greatest fears is I will die without finding a single soul who knows what to do with all this fire behind my eyes.”
― Cindy Cherie

“With a lasso yank, my memories flung me back further. Years earlier, little-girl Maria slapped in the face by her father for a minor indiscretion, and slapping him right back.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“Grief and rage were familiar friends of Geralt”
― Maisie Mack, The Wolf and the Witch

“Any emotion can be additive. The most common addiction to an emotion is that form of intensified anger we call rage. Rage is the only emotion that can't be controlled by shame...When our shame is hooked, the shamed anger becomes rage, tries to protect us and does its job. Rage frightens those around us.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“Unhappiness burns the tissues in slow combustion but rage puts your heart on burning coal.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Light Inspired

“That’s where he quickly settled, the vector of his rage, his hurt, pointed directly back at himself.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Chris, I fell in love with you and you fucking broke me.”
― Zoë Aviya Harris, To Capture a Heart

“And this is how it happens. Someone does something shit to you, makes you suffer, maybe you die, and you get tunnel vision for the revenge you want to feel in your hands—The punishment you believe you deserve to dole out. You come back to find the fucker that ruined your life and you’ll do anything you can to get them back. You can’t see anything else and everyone becomes collateral damage to the pain you have to cause or the justice you have to find. It hurts too much to think of what someone else took from you, that you can’t see anything outside of the future you can’t grasp anymore. Then, when you hurt someone else because your focus is on whoever fucked you up, they come back feeling the same pain, same anger, their future taken from them too and it just keeps going, again and again, over and over, until everyone’s been promised mutual destruction by proximity and nothing else matters.

No one cares about any story that’s not their own. The pain caused is invisible to everyone else until it becomes personal and everyone’s reaching for the thing that blew their lives to pieces. Regret and rage are toxic seeds, planted to consume the heart.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the idea of sharing deep emotional pain with anyone is often unthinkable, even in the 21st century. When you are punished or mocked if you dare to express, or even have, feelings, you typically put a lot of effort into appearing strong and stoic. Except for anger. Male conditioning is much more accepting of anger, and emotion that is more about 'doing' that 'feeling'. Men are, generally speaking, more likely to deal with distress by doing something: overworking, sex, drinking, drugs, aggression, violence, suicide. What is suicide if not the most decisive of actions, after al. Small wonder then that the ultra-macho prison environment, where having emotions is seen as a sign of weakness, is full of men acting out their distress in harmful ways.”
― Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

“There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that place, and then something or someone overwhelms you with rage and murder starts to make sense.”
― Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

“...no resource anywhere was as renewable or as ready to be tapped as the rage of young men.”
― Bonnie Burnard, A Good House

“He did everything he was supposed to do except live his own life, and he was full of rage.”
― James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men

“First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move available, even with beloveds, is bloodletting.”
― Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement