Road Rage Quotes

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.”
― Scott Cherney, Red Asphalt

“The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Oh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person, she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to have stopped by to read her mind.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“Technology is a goddamn bully.”
― Scott Cherney, Red Asphalt

“Nobody overtakes you. Do not let your mind kill the fun.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Impatience often makes us patients.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Shopping Rage, Air Rage, Trolley Rage, Smokers – I Want a Fag Rage, you name it rage. But there’s something mysterious about the transformation that takes place when ordinary folk get behind the wheel of a vehicle. Ordinary mortals are transformed into godlike creatures with mystical powers that help them see through dense fog, help them know that there isn’t any traffic around that blind bend, and can also make them a better driver than anyone else.”
― Stephen Richards, Crash n Carry: The True Story of Britain's Ramraiders

“Skip the urge to respond to a road rage invitation. I find that my days are far more smooth and pleasant when I don’t give someone the leverage to annoy or stress me. Just smile, giggle to yourself, or wave “hi” with a wag of your pinky finger, if you must. But then the incident is over, and no stress or annoyance remains, at least not in my car. The self-centered driver has the negative attitude. Don’t let someone else’s poor behavior choices become contagious.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

“Route 206 has only two lanes, which makes no sense in this over populated state, but presumably someone in power believes that restricting the road to only two lanes forestalls the advent of a further population explosion.

Presumably these same people have not realized that a two-lane system clogs cars, frustrates drivers, and imperils a family of three (Mom, Dad, Ben) driving to a dinner deep in Southern New Jersey.

These same people have not seen any logic to expanding a roadway so that a bleary, sweaty, fleshy man, vodka steaming from his pores, angry at the Range Rover sputtering in front of him, angry that the man with the ponytail driving the Range Rover has a Range Rover, angry at himself for not picking up Willy, his eleven-year-old son, from his mother's today because he went to the bar Fredo's instead, angry angry angry - so fuck it, fuck it all, he thought, I'm going to fucking pass this fucking asswipe Range Rover asshole, I don't care who's coming down the other side, I don't care if the President and his fucking Secret Service guys are barreling down this shitty road, fuck it all, I have the bigger car, I don't need a Range Rover, I have this, my TRUCK, my beautiful big motherfucking TRUCK, and goddamn it, what was up with the blond at the bar?”
― Kathleen DeMarco, Cranberry Queen

“Next time you are feeling road rage or any other kind of anger, consider that the anger isn’t telling you about the outer situation, but is instead just reflecting your own thinking in that moment, and that it is pointing out to you a lack of clarity.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Drivers often overtake themselves into the premises of an undertaker.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The best routes inspire you to drive slow.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Who came up with the idea of calling it ‘rush hour’? Veronica thought, frustrated. Where’s the rush when nobody is moving? And if only it had been an hour! She pondered the obvious misnomer, tapping her fingers impatiently on the steering wheel. The only rush she felt was that of road rage. The proper name would be ‘rage hours.”
― Torres and Firsht

“Turn right in one hundred feet,” the navigational system’s Scottish voice cut through Claire’s response.
“Being interrupted by a Scottish accent sounds more sexy than rude,” she laughed, picturing a kilted Highlander warrior as the man behind the voice. “Very Outlander-ish.”
Suggie giggled along. “I agree. It’s impossible to be angry at a sexy, exotic GPS voice telling you where to go. It’s not road rage. It’s road romance.”
― Elle Jauffret, Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery