Rage Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old rage quotes, rage sayings, and rage proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view. Gautama Buddha
Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them too much power. Rage killed the mind, and now more than ever the mind needed to live, to find a way of rising above the mindlessness. Salman Rushdie
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. James A. Baldwin
Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. Dean Koontz
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. Hannah More
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. Lauren Oliver
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
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou
Men in rage strike those that wish them best. William Shakespeare
I was angry with my friend: / I told my wrath, my wrath did end. / I was angry with my foe: / I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake
Despite all my rage / I am still just a rat in the cage. Billy Corgan
Beware of the fury of the patient man. John Dryden
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. Euripides
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. Edmund Spenser
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
But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known. Lauren DeStefano
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve
Rage... burst in the center of my mind like a black bubble of fury. Lawrence Durrell
Do not go gentle into that good night, / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas
What rage for fame attends both great and small! / Better be damned than mentioned not at all! John Wolcot
Note the greater part of our atheists and you will see that they are atheists from a kind of rage, rage at not being able to believe that there is a God. Miguel de Unamuno
There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Cassandra Clare
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger. Michel de Montaigne
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. Vivekananda
But it is not the feeling of anger that will make changes. It is how you respond to it. You can take the anger that you feel and make it productive rather than raging. You can use it as a catalyst for addressing wrong with great energy and power. Angel Kyodo Williams
To the heart in you, / don’t be afraid to feel. / To the sun in you, / don’t be afraid to shine. / To the love in you, / don’t be afraid to heal. / To the ocean in you, / don’t be afraid to rage. / To the silence in you, / don’t be afraid to break. Najwa Zebian
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James Baldwin
The greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it. St. Faustina