“It’s so fucking cheap when people say I love you. It’s a name to stick on a surge of hormones, with a little hint of loyalty thrown in. I’ve never liked saying it. Here’s what I say: We’re together, now and until the end. You have everything I need to be happy. You make me feel right.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: I Love You, Love, hormones, Happiness
“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, amazon.comTagged: Innocence, Childhood, Violence
“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, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Lies, Gossip
“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Revenge, even, Past, Moving On, Letting Go
“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, Need, eating, breathing
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Death, lost, Alone
“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, amazon.comTagged: Reality, worlds, Ideas
“There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it’s always for their own personal psychological reasons.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Selfish, help, kindness
“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, amazon.comTagged: imaginary, Reality, Music, Fantasy
“Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: emotions, gravity, Dreams, History
“I'm afraid I won't go to hell... that there isn't a hell to go to. No heaven either. Just nothing. Mostly I think there emus be nothing after we die. Sometimes that seems like it would be a relief. Other times it's the most awful thing I can imagine.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Hell, Heaven, Death
“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, amazon.comTagged: hot girls, Mistakes, 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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Judgement, Heaven, forgiven
“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Dating, Breakups, Love
“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, amazon.comTagged: jesus, cross, Suffering, Death
“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, amazon.comTagged: poor, rich, clothing, designer clothing
“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, amazon.comTagged: devil, Women, God, Adam And Eve
“God loves man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If you were in a boat and did not save a drowning man, you would burn in Hell for certain; yet God, in His wisdom, feels no need to use His power to save anyone from a single moment of suffering, and in spite of his inaction…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: God, Love, Power, inaction
“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, amazon.comTagged: Sanity, fragile, Fear
“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, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Wife, poison, bleeding
“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probabl…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Privacy, Internet, Online, stalking
“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, amazon.comTagged: Shootings, hormones, Misery, columbine
“You know, we might’ve fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting the ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren’t all bad.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: inventions, Destruction, humanity
“The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Love, Death, Relationships, Destruction
“It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels b…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Religion, Violence, Faith, Happiness
“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, amazon.comTagged: Giving, Souls, Hell
“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, amazon.comTagged: Murder, Torture, immoral, greater good
“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones y…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Family, Personality, Creation
“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrativ…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Death, Dying, Stories
“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, amazon.comTagged: Home, childhood home, Personality, reverting