Rage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.
-- Alethea Kontis -
Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.
-- Amy Clampitt -
My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.
-- Ariel Sharon -
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
-- Arthur Symons -
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
-- Bell Hooks -
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 -
Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.
-- Brody Dalle -
There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?
-- Cassandra Clare -
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno
-- Cindy Sheehan -
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
-- Claudius Claudianus -
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
-- David Lloyd George -
I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'
-- David Wojnarowicz -
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.
-- Diane Cilento -
I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
-- Dominic Cooper -
The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.
-- Donal Logue -
If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
-- Doris Lessing -
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.
-- Erich Segal -
In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,
-- Etta James -
I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
-- Fisher Stevens -
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
-- George Eliot -
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
-- Grace Paley -
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
-- Harold Brodkey -
This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.
-- Hillary Jordan -
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.
-- Jack Vance -
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.
-- James Packer -
I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
-- Jenna Coleman -
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
-- Jessica Lange -
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers
-- Jimmy Breslin -
Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly
-- Joe Orton -
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
-- John Malkovich -
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
-- John Wolcot -
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
-- Joseph Hall -
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!
-- Joss Whedon -
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.
-- Katie Holmes -
I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.
-- Katie Taylor -
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...
-- Ken Follett -
When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.
-- Kevin B. Rollins -
I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.
-- Lee DeWyze -
It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
-- Lennox Lewis -
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook -
I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.
-- Michael Richards -
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
-- Michael Storm -
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
-- Miguel Syjuco -
I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
-- Ned Vizzini -
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
-- Octavia Butler -
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
-- Ovid -
I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
-- Paddy Considine -
Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.
-- Patricia Wentworth -
Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.
-- Paul Monette -
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.
-- Peter A. Levine -
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
-- Plutarch -
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
-- Polly Horvath -
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
-- Rahul Dravid -
I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.
-- Richey Edwards -
Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.
-- Roy Wilkins -
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
-- Sam Kinison -
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
-- Siobhan Fahey -
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
-- Steve Almond -
You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
-- Sue Grafton -
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.
-- Tara Moss -
The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.
-- Thomas M. Disch -
I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani "rage" ticket.
-- Tina Fey -
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.
-- Tina Howe -
Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon -
The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer
-- William Archibald Spooner -
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
-- William Blake -
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
-- Woody Allen -
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.
-- Wright Morris -
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage.
-- Leonard Pitts -
As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.
-- Nicholas D'Agosto -
To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.
-- Pope Agapetus I -
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
-- Stark Sands -
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
-- Ada Limon