These fury quotes will inspire you. Fury intense, disordered, and often destructive rage or wild or violent anger.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fury quotes, fury sayings, and fury proverbs.
Best Fury Quotes
- “Abused patience turns to fury.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.” ~ Francis Quarles
- “Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.” ~ William Congreve
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“Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.” ~ James H. Cone
- “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” ~ William Faulkner
- “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.” ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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“Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.” ~ Dick Gregory
- “Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.” ~ Delmore Schwartz
- “And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.” ~ John Podhoretz
- “In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.” ~ Harlan Coben
- “Beware the fury of a patient man.” ~ John Dryden
- “War hath no fury like a non-combatant.” ~ Charles Edward Montague
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“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father’s fury – once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.” ~ Tatum O’Neal
- “Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.” ~ Ben Jonson
- “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.” ~ Erich Maria Remarque
- “I understand a fury in your words But not your words.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- “Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?” ~ Kerry Thornley
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“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.” ~ Davy Crockett
- “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare , Fury quotes about life
- “People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.” ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
- “Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.” ~ Ida B. Wells
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“I identify with this guy’s frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humor. So yeah, it’s interesting.” ~ Bradley Whitford
- “About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.” ~ Ernie Pyle
- “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.” ~ Ernst Moritz Arndt
- “The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.” ~ Jean Racine
- “Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” ~ William Faulkner
- “…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” ~ William Faulkner
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“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the sense? –now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He’s demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don’t remember that pain, that hangover-he’s too busy.” ~ William Faulkner , Fury quotes about work
- “At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.” ~ Edward Gibbon
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“If I say you’re a goatherd’s son, you say, ‘Yes, Lord Ralon.'” Alanna gasped with fury. “I’d as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you’ve been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?” ~ Tamora Pierce
- “The finest fury is the most controlled.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
- “I don’t remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.” ~ Karl Marx
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“Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven’t got the energy for it.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.” ~ Anna Godbersen
- “Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss
- “Don’t cry.” “How can I not?” I asked him. “You just said you loved me.” “Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?” He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. “The Furies wouldn’t be trying to kill you if I didn’t love you.” “I didn’t know,” I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. “You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so… wild.” “How was I supposed to act?” he asked. “You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.” ~ Meg Cabot
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“Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn’t know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. […] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.” ~ Gayle Forman
- “Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.” ~ James Patterson
- “It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.” ~ Agatha Christie
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“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.” ~ Francoise Sagan
- “what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority” ~ Audre Lorde
- “Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “I tensed, waiting for the fury – both his and mine – but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn’t consciously notice until it was removed. There was no friction in the space between us. The stillness was peaceful – not like the calm before the tempest, but like a clear night untouched by even the dream of a storm.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
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“Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.” ~ William Penn
- “Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.” ~ Ken Kesey
- “Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.” ~ Kristin Cashore
- “She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my passion, my fury, my soul. Shall I explain further?” ~ Melissa Marr
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“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.” ~ Jack London
- “Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I’d almost burst into tears. I’d seen many things in his eyes in the time that I’d known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out.” ~ Karen Marie Moning
- “[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire’s strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.” ~ Homer
