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Joe Hill Quotes

Total quotes: 62
“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Revenge, even, Past, Moving On, Letting Go, Examples of Metaphors
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: devil, creepy, humanity
“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: God, satan, Evil
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Strangers
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: devil, Evil, humanity, Destruction
“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Drunk, stoned, healthy
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Ghosts, minds, Haunted, Suicide
“Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you’re in hell when you don’t give to someone who needs, because you can’t bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Giving, Souls, Hell
“The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: devil, Women, God, Adam And Eve
“Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we’ll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: humanity, flies, Fighting, wealthy
“The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Death, Relationships, Destruction
“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Evil, Sin, Desire
“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”
— Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
Tagged: Marriage, Destruction, Fixing
“Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Innocence, Childhood, Violence
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Loved Ones, Good, Evil, Memories
“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Mad, Demons, Impulse, Insanity
“Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: poor, rich, clothing, designer clothing
“So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: jesus, cross, Suffering, Death
“To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Living, Death, Kindess, Friendship
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Blood, Death, creepy
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Marriage, Knowledge, Intimacy
“Was there any human urge more pitiful, or more intense, than wanting another chance at something?”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: humanity, urges, chances, Second Chances
“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Childhood, adults, Children, Imagination, resignation
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Bible, Mourning, Blessed, God
“The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Murder, Torture, immoral, greater good
“There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it’s always for their own personal psychological reasons.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Selfish, help, kindness
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Shootings, hormones, Misery, columbine
“My first wife was like the rash you get from poison ivy. I couldn't stand her, but I couldn't keep my hands off her. She was an itch I scratched until I bled.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Marriage, Wife, poison, bleeding
“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”
— Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
Tagged: Friendship, Dating, Breakups, Love
“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”
— Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
Tagged: Love, Judgement, Heaven, forgiven
“Every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it’s always possible she’ll make one with you.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: hot girls, Mistakes, Love
“There’s the physical world... but there’s also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It’s just as real as our world, but it’s inside.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Reality, worlds, Ideas
“Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.”
— Joe Hill, The Fireman: A Novel
Tagged: Silence, Lies, Gossip
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Ghosts, Haunted, creepy
“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”
— Joe Hill, Locke & Key Slipcase Set
Tagged: Children, Parenting, Fear
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Sin, Ideas, inventions, Evil
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Death, lost, Alone
“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Home, childhood home, Personality, reverting
“Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: Sanity, fragile, Fear
“People made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel
Tagged: imaginary, Reality, Music, Fantasy
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