Impotent Rage Quotes & Sayings

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. — Paul Valery

He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful to a son to witness — Elizabeth Gaskell

And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom
to direct their impotent rage. — Patrick Suskind

If I wanted so much to go
if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that door, why didn't I just go? ... What kept me frozen there in a despair composed equally of impotent rage and a strange reluctance to shatter some exquisite but invisible structure, neither the shape nor purpose of which was apparent to me? In a words, what the hell was going on? — Elaine Dundy

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. — Virgil

Satisfied he had made his point, he left me there to cough up blood and bile and impotent rage. And fear. — Nenia Campbell

Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage. — Eva Hoffman

When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness. — Christina Baker Kline

smouldering away in a fit of impotent rage — Annabel Crabb

It is not worthiness the Narcissist feels when he or she communicates "I deserve." Narcissistic entitlement has nothing to do with genuine self-esteem, which comes from real accomplishment and being true to one's own ideals. Individuals who feel entitled to respect without giving it in return, or who expect rewards without effort, or a life free of discomfort, are forfeiting any power they might have to shape their own destiny. They assume an essentially passive role and count on outside forces to make them happy. When what they expect doesn't happen, they feel impotent. By claiming entitlement, they demand to live in the fantasy world of the one-year-old child. No wonder they're enraged.

Entitlement and the rage that comes with it are tip-offs to the arrest in healthy development that is narcissism. — Sandy Hotchkiss

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved. — Margaret Mitchell