Rage Quotes

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

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Savages

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

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• Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Evil, Half

  Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

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• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Giving, Wish

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Adversity, Flames

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• If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Anger, Men, Overcoming

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• Abused patience turns to fury.

  Thomas Fuller

  Patience, Anger, Be Patient

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• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• Beware of the fury of the patient man.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Men, Atheism

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• Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Wall, Good Day, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

  Bell Hooks

  Oppressed, Privileged

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Family, Happiness

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  Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Light, Dying

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• The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

  Euripides

  Anger, Anger And Bitterness

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Sky, Weather

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• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Shapes, Breasts

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1987). “Selected Tales and Sketches”, p.131, Penguin

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Anger, Men, Betrayed

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.45, Bantam

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• Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

  Hannah Arendt

  Anger, Mean, Earthquakes

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Fear, Atheism

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• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Crazy

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• Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

  Sister Souljah

  Opposites, Over You, Mind

  Sister Souljah (2013). “The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.911, Simon and Schuster

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