„When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that he'd had a stroke. "I can't have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "I've got 93,000 pounds in my current account."“

— Tom Baker

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„Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,Two shadows starting to softly combine.
The picture they're painting
Is one of the heart;
And to those who have seen it,
It's a true work of art.Oh, the red strokes,
Passions uncaged;
Thundering moments of tenderness rage.
Oh, the red strokes,
Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn),
Burning the night like the dawn.“

— Garth Brooks American country music artist 1962

The Red Strokes, written by Jim Garver, Lisa Sanderson, Jenny Yates, and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, In Pieces (1993)

Night, Painting, Heart, Wine

„I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too
I had my pointless point of view
And life went on no matter who was wrong or right.“

— Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

Angry Young Man.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)

Fight, Rage, Age, Life

„His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.“

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, book The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

Rage

„"I know you," he said. "I know your scent. Long ago, yes, but I never forget. I know your name."
"A friend of a friend, perhaps?" I eyed his spear-tip nervously. Unlike Eagle-beak, he didn't wave it about at all.
"No… an enemy…"
"Terrible when you can't remember something that's right on the tip of your tongue," I observed. "Isn't it, though? And you try so hard to recall it, but often as not you can't because some fool's interrupting you, prattling away so you can't concentrate, and-"
Bull-head gave a bellow of rage. "Shut up! I almost had it then!"“

— Jonathan Stroud, book The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

Forgetting, Rage, Fools

„In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.“

— Laura Hillenbrand, book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Rage, Fear

„This is what Keynes had meant when he warned of the dangers of economic chaos—you never know what combination of rage, racism and revolution will be unleashed.“

— Naomi Klein Canadian author and activist 1970

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

Rage

„Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.“

— Stephen Fry, book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

Indifference, Rage, Tear, Nature

„If someone had told us in 1945 that in our lifetime religious wars would rage on virtually every continent, that thousands of children would once again be dying of starvation, we would not have believed it. Or that racism and fanaticism would flourish once again, we would not have believed it.“

— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

Rage, Children, War

„Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. He did not permit it and would fly in a rage when he caught me in the act. He hid the candles when he found that I was reading in secret. He did not want me to spoil my eyes. But I obtained tallow, made the wicking and cast the sticks into tin forms, and every night I would bush the keyhole and the cracks and read, often till dawn.“

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

My Inventions (1919)

Night, Flying, Reading, Passion

„I was in a state of rage, also. I was so angry and I couldn't really explain why. I didn't have the language for it. And so I turned to what I knew, I remembered the kind of woman my mother had been — in a lot of ways, I was acting out, I was performing the same thing.“

— Jaquira Díaz Puerto Rican writer

On becoming a juvenile delinquent in “In New Memoir 'Ordinary Girls,' Jaquira Díaz Searches For Home” https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774306278/jaquira-d-az-on-her-memoir-ordinary-girls in NPR (2019 Oct 29)

Rage, Way

„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, book White Noise

White Noise (1984)

Rage, Learning, Way, Art

„He knew he should be furious, but he couldn’t sustain a decent rage around her. She had too much about her of the ferocious kitten. Something small and fuzzy, just learning it had claws and how to use them“

— Alice Borchardt American fiction writer 1939 - 2007

Beguiled

Rage, Learning

„Usually when Geoff punches me, he's smiling. There was no smiles. It was pure rage.“

— Gavin Free English filmmaker 1988

"Let's Play Minecraft Part 9 - Build a Tower Part 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpfWIizrd6U. youtube.com. July 27, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014.

Rage, Smile

„"How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles—is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master."“

— Sophocles ancient Greek tragedian -496 - -406 BC

Plato, Republic, 1.329c. Translated by Paul Shorey.

Rage, Nature

„… all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.“

— Kingsley Amis, book Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim

Rage, Sex, Life

„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.“

— W.B. Yeats, book The Winding Stair and Other Poems

The Choice http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1602/, st. 1
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

Perfection, Rage, Life

„although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.“

— Erich Segal, book Doctors

Source: Doctors

Science, Rage, Love

„Hitler had a great dislike for the Danes for the following reason: the Danish king had been congratulated by Hitler on his birthday, and the king answered cryptically with 'Many thanks.' Hitler was said to have had an attack of rage. And ever since then Hitler hated Denmark.“

— Rudolf Mildner Chief of the Gestapo at Katowice 1902

To Leon Goldensohn (12 February 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

Rage, Birthday, Hate

„It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage…“

— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

" Once by the Pacific http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific-2/" (1928)
General sources
Context: You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Night, Rage, Age

„You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?“

— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

The Spur http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1693/
Last Poems (1936-1939)

Dance, Rage, Thinking, Age

„When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that he'd had a stroke. "I can't have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "I've got 93,000 pounds in my current account."“

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