“I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Gossip, Communication
“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, amazon.comTagged: Ghosts, minds, Haunted, Suicide
“If hell was anything, it was talk radio — and family.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Family, Hell, radio, Torture
“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, amazon.comTagged: Drunk, stoned, healthy
“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, amazon.comTagged: Mad, Demons, Impulse, Insanity
“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Music, World, humanity, Singing
“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, amazon.comTagged: Bible, Mourning, Blessed, God
“Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: humanity, germs, catastrophe
“Music is the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Music, Feelings, emotions
“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, amazon.comTagged: Loved Ones, Good, Evil, Memories
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Sin, Ideas, inventions, Evil
“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, amazon.comTagged: Childhood, adults, Children, Imagination, resignation
“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Living, alive, Blessings
“Was there any human urge more pitiful, or more intense, than wanting another chance at something?”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: humanity, urges, chances, Second Chances
“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Destruction, Fixing
“To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Living, Death, Kindess, Friendship
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: devil, Evil, humanity, Destruction
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Marriage, Knowledge, Intimacy
“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, amazon.comTagged: humanity, flies, Fighting, wealthy