Quotes from Joe Hill

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

Love requires Context.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

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.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

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.

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 you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.

It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don't care who gets hurt.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.

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?

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.