Top 450 Joe Hill Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “He did not hate his wife, but felt for her the kind of affection a man usually reserves for an excitable puppy. Her immediate acceptance of his every opinion and observation was both disheartening and a little hilarious to him. There was not a single criticism he could offer that she would not immediately accept as true. He made a game out of it.”

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302. “Ha ha,” he told her. “I get it. Very funny. Everyone loves a good deaf joke. Hey, why did God make farts stink? So deaf people could enjoy them, too.” When.”

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303. “Invent a way not to ged old,” he said. “It is a terrible goddem trick to play on someone. Gedding old is no way to stop being young.”

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304. “What’s He ever done for you?” Ig asked her. “Does he make it hurt less when people laugh at you behind your back? Or more- because for His sake you’re all alone in the world?”

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305. “Only the devil loves humans for what they are and rejoices in their cunning schemes against themselves, their shameless curiosity, their lack of self-control, their impulse to break a rule as soon as they hear tell of it, their willingness to forsake their immortal soul for nookie. The devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their soul for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.”

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306. “There is the True Knot, who live on the road and are in much the same line of work as myself. I leave them be and they are glad to return the favor.”

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307. “The road to Christmasland is paved in dreams!”

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308. “Snuffleupagus was real. No.”

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309. “She was saying he wasn’t like the children in Christmasland. She was saying he was still himself. But Charlie Manx had said something different. Charlie Manx said blood didn’t come out of silk. Tabitha.”

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310. “Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.”

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311. “A man just can’t earn a living wage selling Smurfpecker in this blighted nation. I have to tell you, heroin dealers and meth slingers have made your country a wretched place to be a simple, honest drug dealer who wants to give his customers a lovingly curated experience. “Tom.”

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312. “The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They’ve all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.”

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313. “Resentment is a form of starvation. Resentment is the hunger strike of the soul.”

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314. “When the song faded out, a woman began a report, “Today in Blessings.” It was news, of a sort. She said word had come in that J. K. Rowling, author of the godless Harry Potter novels, had been killed by firing squad in Edinburgh. Her execution had been televised on what remained of the Web.”

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315. “Satan has long been known as the Adversary, but God fears women even more than He fears the devil – and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man’s worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.”

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316. “The cicadas buzzed in Bing’s head, like madness.”

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317. “He was like a holy person in a Bible story, someone who can heal the ripped and infected parts of you with a laying-on of hands. You know how Bible stories go. That kind of person, they’re never around long. Losers and jerks put nails in them and watch the air run out.”

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318. “In Vietnam he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was discharged with honors and settled in Florida.”

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319. “You get an astronaut’s life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That’s just the deal.”

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320. “I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you He is alive and well but in no position to offer salvation, being damned Himself for His criminal indifference. He was lost the moment He demanded fealty and worship before He would offer His protection. The unmistakable bargain of a gangster.”

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321. “You sure you’re all right? You aren’t out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?”

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322. “One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you’re seriously insecure.”

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323. “A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God’s final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.”

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324. “Gold don’t come off. What’s good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You’re okay. You’ll always be okay.”

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325. “But they could not stay, because you could not raise a baby in a trench.”

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326. “Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.”

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327. “A man in a white shirt and black pants leapt from one of the open windows. His hair was on fire. His arms pinwheeled as he dropped out of frame. He was followed seconds later by a woman in a dark skirt. When she jumped, she clasped her hands to her thighs, as if to keep her skirt from flapping up and showing her underwear. Jakob.”

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328. “I’m a Browncoat, man.” “More like turncoat,” Daltry said, and laughed. Flecks of spittle hit Bilbo in the face.”

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329. “Healthy American boobies, that’s what we’re fighting for,” he said. “That needs to be in the Constitution. Every man has a right to life, liberty, and germ-free titties. Learn the drill, girls. If we show up at your front door, be ready to do your patriotic duty and show us your freedom-loving, virus-free knockers.” The.”

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330. “To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death. The sugar was sweeter when you gave it to someone else to taste.”

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331. “You don’t want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden.”

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332. “Who says we’re smart?′ she asked, in a tone of playful contempt. ‘We never even mastered fire. We thought we did, but you see now, it has mastered us.”

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333. “It’s about the terror of an ordinary life” or “It’s the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind.” But.”

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334. “Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.”

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335. “Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.”

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336. “Harper took a can of Spam out of her carpetbag and hunted in the cupboard for something to spread it on.”

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337. “I’m surprised you could get in,” says the big man. “They’ve got to draft a certain number of unqualified inner-city kids to meet their quota. That means a lot less space for people like you.” “People like what?” Fidelman asks, enunciating slowly and deliberately. People. Like. What? Nearly fifty years of being gay has taught Fidelman that it is a mistake to let certain statements pass unchallenged.”

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338. “But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought – in an inscape – every idea is a fact.”

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339. “Time to pour a glass of strawberry Quik – Mr. Beukes liked to use it as an ingredient in his protein shakes, and I liked to use it as an ingredient in my fat ass –.”

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340. “Se pueden averiguar muchas cosas de alguien cuando le das por culo.”

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341. “You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I’m holding a whole stack of their CDs.” Harper.”

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342. “All good preachers have a little of the devil in them.”

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343. “They’re all drylanders, they don’t understand how easy it is to go loose and fluid down here in the depths, how little rank and order seem to matter when you’re moving as a single beast with a dozen tails, two dozen arms, and trying all the while to keep yourself together, keep yourself unified, keep yourself whole. The chain of command dissolves under the pressure of the crushing deep, just as so many other things – both expected and unimagined – have already fallen away.”

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344. “In a lot of ways, I guess Satan was the first superhero.” “Don’t you mean supervillain?” “Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality. Sounds kind of like a cross between Animal Man and Dr. Phil to me.” She.”

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345. “Happiness will do more for you than any wonder drug the apothecaries can invent!”

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346. “Come on now, Mr. Gallagher. We turned the sound off for you. The bad woman can’t hurt you. We’ll keep you safe from all her reason and science and compassion.” “Just keep your back turned,” Loren Hayes added. “If you look at her, there’s the very real possibility you might catch a glimpse of empathy and it’ll give you a sour tummy.”

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347. “He glanced over at the woman who had never been his wife but who had, incredibly, given him a child and made his life mean something. The idea that he had ever held her hand, or tasted her mouth, or made love to her, even now seemed as unlikely as being bitten by a radioactive spider.”

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348. “Harper thought of Hillary Clinton. She.”

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349. “Aisha was ten and didn’t understand half of what Colson said, up there on the stage, dressed in purple velvet like he was Prince. She couldn’t follow the words, but she didn’t have any problem making sense of the way Juliet looked at him. Aisha didn’t have any problem figuring out why Juliet’s cousin hated Romeo either. Tybalt didn’t want some smooth-talking black kid crowding in on any white girl, let alone someone in his family.”

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350. “Time must be slowed to a crawl to make sense of any scene of true chaos – to show the flurry of human action and reaction going off like multiple strings of firecrackers, all at once. Every.”

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