Quotes About Rebellion

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

I sang in my chains like the sea

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, Rage Against the Dying of the Light