Rage Quotes

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

"Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman."

"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."

"Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

"Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be."

"Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old."

"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."

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

"Anger is a short madness."

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

"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."

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."

"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."

"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

"Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's."

"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance."

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

"Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger."

"As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry."

"Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve."

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."

"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you."

"Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love."

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence."