“Really from a young age, my story was darkness, pain, self-injury, suicide attempts and loss. I spent my adolescent years not knowing who I was, struggling with mental illness, struggling with self-destruction, rage, and all the other things that are part of mental illness and part of people who hav…”— Amy Bleuel, underthelabels.wordpress.com
“[On discovering her sister's dead] Where is she? [Her father doesn't answer] I Hate You...I Hate You...I HATE YOU!...YOU PIG!”— Regina Corrado, Fawn Trager, Lexi Sakowitz, imdb.com
“Narcissistic rage occurs when that core instability is threatened and furthermore threatened to destabilize them even further.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“And just as Hamlet’s mother said, “the lady doth protest too much,” “the narcissist doth brag, scorn, talk down, primp and belittle too much” in order to continually prove to the world and themselves that they are larger than life. This is not to increase their self-esteem as much as it is to contin…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“What is at the core of narcissists is not what is often referred to as low self-esteem. I don’t think that is accurate, but something that the people around them say to themselves to mollify their own rage at the narcissist, i.e. 'Oh, they only act that way, because they lack self-esteem.' What is r…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“There is a saying that when you’re a hammer the world looks like a nail. When you’re a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that feels like an assault and because of that a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“Holding anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. I know a very good medicine for this: 'punching pillows.'”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“The main thing that keeps me going is rage. Rage and anger. I am competitive. I do not want to be defeated. I do not want to lose. I do not want to be emasculated. It's me against them. It's high noon every day of my life, and I think I’ve been shot in the balls a few times, but I’m still able to dr…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“Satan ever from the beginning hath declared himself enemy to the free and undeserved love of God. He hath now in these most corrupt days most furiously raged against that doctrine, which attributeth all praise and glory of our redemption to the eternal love and undeserved grace of God alone.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“Rage is to righteousness as certainty is to wisdom. Constantly mistaken for each other, they're hardly ever in the same room.”— J. K. Rowling, twitter.com
“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, amazon.com
“Beware of the quiet kind people like me, we are filled with rage of being used so i might spit fire and turn with no regret if you do me wrong.”— Bambi, wnq-writers.com
“I often don’t say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all.”— Stephen King, amazon.com