Rage Quotes - Page 37

• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Dark, Men

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932"

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• For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Prelude, Delusion

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• In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.

  Dylan Thomas

  Art, Lying, Grief

  In My Craft or Sullen Art" l. 17 (1946)

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• He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

  Melissa Marr

  Doors, Slam, Left

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• When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Garden, People, Naked

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library

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• ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

  Anne Lamott

  Discovery, Self, Parent

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

  Anne Lamott

  Summer, Rain, Car

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws. "Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?" Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped. The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.

  Erin Hunter

  Lying, Grief, Cat

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• Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Morning, Children, Betrayal

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Irritation, Envy, Vices

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Joy, Hammers, Torn

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.544, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

  Erica Jong

  Successful, Artist, Soul

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

  Henry Miller

  Mother, Stars, Lying

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blind Rage, Shouting, Ran

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Independent, Army

  "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.

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• The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Dream, Personality, Limitless

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.445, Macmillan

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• When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Loss, Winning

  William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.130, Springer

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• 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

  Likes, Should, Satisfied

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• He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, New York, Air

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Sweet, Lying, Mean

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

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• Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Revenge, Cages

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• There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

  Amy Carmichael

  Women, History, Victory

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• Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ice, Hot, Crash

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• You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

  Stephenie Meyer

  War, Race, Speak

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• How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Hate, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

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