Rage Quotes - Page 21

• The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.

  Clive Barker

  Monsters, Certain, Impulse

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jan 06, 2013

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• I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

  Martin Amis

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

  Bhartrhari

  Pride, Fire, Land

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• My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, World, Way

  "Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, Views, Ethnicity

  John Ashcroft (2006). “Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

  Romain Rolland

  Artist, Storm, Compass

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

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• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

  Plutarch

  Said, Athenians, Senses

  "Life of Phocion". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Wings, Hot, Burning

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.292, Penguin

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• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Sunset

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Passion, Pride

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

  David Hume

  Suicide, Fashion, Men

  David Hume (1799). “ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL”, p.60

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• Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Dream, Home, Joy

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.136

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• Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.

  Rollo May

  Hurt, Communication, Simple

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

  Rollo May

  Sex, Creative, Example

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• 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

  Life Is Like, Enchantment, Halls

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.38, Psychology Press

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• Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

  Peter Carey

  Cheer, Mean, Close Friends

  2002 In the Observer, 18 Aug.

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• I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Add, Moral

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Rain, Kissing, Oxygen

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• The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more - is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Reality, Ideas

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.

  Caroline Myss

  Running, Regret, Hands

  "Distractions, Distractions: 5 rules for staying in the present moment". www.healyourlife.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.

  John S. Hall

  Insulting, Frustrated, Tasks

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.

  Bentley Little

  Writing, Frustration, Internet Access

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• Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Memories, Reality, Worry

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• I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

  R. S. Thomas

  Country, Men, Wind

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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