Quotes about Rage

There is a certain anger; it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage — self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage — and its flame burns because the world is so unjust.

In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Anger is the key to any evil.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

What is anger? A lust for revenge. What is hatred? An anger grown old.

There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!

There’s no emotion more eager for vengeance than anger, and for that very reason, none less suited to the taking of vengeance.

Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.