Rage Quotes

Most popular rage quotes

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

art

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. - Jimmy Breslin quote.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

columnists

All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm. - Josephine Tey quote.
All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm.
Given the ethnic and racial hierarchies of American life, there are those who dish it out and those who have to take it. Some get to dish it out without ever having to take it, some take it from those above and dish it out to those below, and some find themselves in the position of always having to take it.

despair

I've learned to live with my rage.   In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.  Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
Etta James Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story

musicians

Some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies have, at times, thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage a little like a lion. - John Adams quote.
Some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies have, at times, thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage a little like a lion.
Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise. - Hannah Arendt quote.
Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever. - James Baldwin quote.
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever.
A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response.
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing. - Octavia Butler quote.
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage. - E. M. Cioran quote.
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
My life has taken me from innocence to rage and back again.
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste. - John Dryden quote.
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste.
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.  Certain things happen to you that cement your determination never to take it again. - Marian Wright Edelman quote.
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.  Certain things happen to you that cement your determination never to take it again.
We wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
Rage is to writers what water is to fish. - Nikki Giovanni quote.
Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

writers

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man. - Nathaniel Hawthorne quote.
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity—the incredibly outgoing energy—of righteous rage.
June Jordan Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union
Rage strengthens the hands, however feeble they may be. - Ovid quote.
Rage strengthens the hands, however feeble they may be.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers quote.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know. - Muriel Rukeyser quote.
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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 quote.
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.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best. - William Shakespeare quote.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm—you couldn't hear yourself think.