410 Quotes by Joe Hill

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

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

Don't mourn, Organise

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

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.

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. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

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.